Debrett
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Debrett
C19: after J. Debrett (c. 1750–1822), London publisher who first issued it
Example Sentences
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Luckily, only a few minutes into the interview, the singer born Tahliah Debrett Barnett spotted a familiar matcha spot coming up on her route.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
In the same video, the Cheltenham-born performer, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, suggests this isn't the only problem she's had with her production team on her Eusexua tour.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Twigs grew up in Cheltenham as Tahliah Debrett Barnett, the only child of an English-Spanish single mother from Birmingham, who’d moved out to the countryside to give her daughter a better life.
From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2019
It’s ironic that the English performer Tahliah Debrett Barnett is in the news because she’s settling down.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2015
London: printed for J. Debrett, MDCCLXXXVI. 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
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