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Debut   /deɪbjˈu/  /dˈeɪbju/   Listen
Debut

noun
1.
The act of beginning something new.  Synonyms: entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling.
2.
The presentation of a debutante in society.
verb
1.
Present for the first time to the public.
2.
Appear for the first time in public.
3.
Make one's debut.





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"Debut" Quotes from Famous Books



... applied myself with a celestial or diabolical energy to the study of such things as would qualify me to be a first-rate parliamentary reporter—at that time a calling pursued by many clever men who were young at the Bar; that I made my debut in the gallery (at about eighteen, I suppose), engaged on a voluminous publication no longer in existence, called the Mirror of Parliament; that when the Morning Chronicle was purchased by Sir John Easthope and acquired a large circulation, I was engaged there, and that I remained there ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various
... have now elapsed since my little heroine "ELSIE DINSMORE" made her debut into the great world. She was sent out with many an anxious thought regarding the reception that might await her there. But she was kindly welcomed, and such has been the favor shown her ever since that Publishers and Author ...
— Elsie's Girlhood • Martha Finley
... des Matieres au debut de ce livre electronique a ete ajoutee pour faciliter la navigation. Les tables, dont l'une se trouvait sur les pages 46 et 48 et l'autre sur les pages 47 et 49, ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... Heaven bless him for it! went on fluently. This was the moment, he said, before Miss Montenero should appear in public, and get into the whirl of the great world, before engagements should multiply and press upon her, as inevitably they would as soon as she had made her debut—this was the moment, and the only moment probably she would ever have to herself, to see all that was worth a stranger's notice in London. Mr. Montenero was obliged to Mowbray, and I am ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth
... saying a thing against him," replied the officer impatiently. "I'm giving him a friendly tip to beat it, if you see him. Now I'm going to send you up-town with a plain-clothes man. He'll show you where your friend made his New York debut. That's all we can ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine


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