Time to treat your mum: Word in the Streets

By John Snelling
Updated May 9 2018 - 1:27pm, first published May 7 2018 - 3:00pm
May means a change in the Autumn leaves... and Mother's Day. Photo by John Snelling.
May means a change in the Autumn leaves... and Mother's Day. Photo by John Snelling.

Debutante comes from a French word, spelled almost identically, meaning ‘female beginner’. It originally applied to a young woman of an aristocratic or upper-class family who has reached maturity and as a new adult comes out into society.

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