debutante

Penelope lacks the silver tongue and easy charm of other young debutantes.

“The lineup that we had at the end, there were a lot of debutantes,” Thomas said.

The Los Angeles Times ran a story in which columnist Ben Bolch referred to LSU players as “dirty debutantes” and “villains.”

Do you prefer America’s sweethearts or its dirty debutantes?

“Debs at War” and “1939: The Last Season,” for instance, describe World War II and its upending of the British class system by following the lives of London debutantes.