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subdebutante

American  
[suhb-deb-yoo-tahnt, -yuh-] / sʌbˈdɛb yʊˌtɑnt, -yə- /

noun

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

Etymology

Origin of subdebutante

First recorded in 1915–20; sub- + debutante

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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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