Unfortunately, at this cotillion, Mozilla failed to make a good case for anyone to court its debutante.

ENGADGET

She was a girl scout (honorable), a debutante (poised), and a teacher (selfless) before beginning her career on Wall Street.

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This is out debutante moment so it's always a delicate balance - when you launch, and when you start to sell.

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Otherwise Russia may risk being the eternal debutante: chattering prettily to all her suitors, but never getting very far with any of them.

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And of course, there are the watches, gleaming demurely in their vitrines, exuding the gamine charm of a debutante whose hand you wonder if you dare ask for at the dance.

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At 50-something, Ms. Fleming is lithe and slender enough to be a convincing debutante, and her cream-coated voice can float Strauss's melodic lines so beautifully they might bring tears to romantic eyes.

WSJ

Wilson, his son, takes a summer job at a scandal rag, where no amount of ink on his sleeves lives down the day he arrives at work wearing his bowed dancing shoes from debutante balls on the ritzy North Shore.

ECONOMIST: New fiction