subs. (common).—A débutante.

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  1847.  TENNYSON, The Princess, Prol.

        A ROSEBUD set with little wilful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make her, she.

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  1885.  The Century Magazine, xl. 582. They flutter their brief hour in society…. Some of them hold on like grim death to ROSEBUD privileges.

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