Debrett
/ (dəˈbrɛt) /
a list of the British aristocracy: In full: Debrett's Peerage
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How to use Debrett in a sentence
I don't profess to be a walking Debrett, but I fancy the name recalls some strange memory.
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor | Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. HanshewIt was astonishing how "well posted," to use the Transatlantic idiom, the papers were in Burke and Debrett.
Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) | W. H. RussellThere was a trenchant symbolism, too, in massacring a flea with Debrett; no other volume would have been heavy enough.
The Vanity Girl | Compton MackenzieShe hurriedly looked up in Debrett and Who's Who all the other actresses who had married into the peerage.
The Vanity Girl | Compton MackenzieThe list of "fashionables" he handed to the reporters resembled an extract from the pages of Messrs. Burke and Debrett.
The Magnificent Montez | Horace Wyndham
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