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  1. noun A first public appearance, as of a performer.
  2. noun The formal presentation of a young woman to society.
  3. noun The beginning of a course of action: the debut of a new foreign policy.
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  • He determined that he would appear in the same play with me on the first night's trial; but what part to choose for my debut was a difficult question. —  Beaux and Belles of England
  • All I know is, that she made her debut in society as a lady of elegance, and her debut was all the more marked because, during the life of her husband, her conduct was entirely the contrary. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
  • We thought his debut was a slow walk through the land of bedroom electronica - with tiresome music layered with painfully dull vocals. —  Polaroids of Androids - News
  • With a white-hot major-label debut, the Donnas don't have time for Avril Lavigne -- or you —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • TV critics were braced for disaster after CW refused to send out screener copies of the show (the debut was actually reworked until nearly the last minute). —  Bricks and Stones Gossip
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  1. French début, from débuter, to give the first stroke in a game, begin : dé-, from, away (from Old French de-; see de-) + but, goal, target (from Old French butte; see butt3).
 

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