subdebutante

[suhb-deb-yoo-tahnt, -yuh-]

noun

1. a young woman who has not yet made her debut into society.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subdebutante¹

First recorded in 1915–20; sub- + debutante

Example Sentences

His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy interior decorator are nauseating; his elder married daughter is verging on adultery; his subdebutante child reeks of alcohol; his undergraduate son is a bumptious cad.

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