“sub、deb”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sub-deb

释义

sub-deb slang (chiefly U.S.). Now rare.
[sub- 14 b.]
A girl who will soon ‘come out’ as a social débutante. Hence, less specifically, a girl in her mid-teens. Also fig. and attrib.
1917M. R. Rinehart (title) Bab: a sub-deb.Ibid. i. 14 Is it fair also, I ask, that in the best society a girl is a Sub-Deb the year before she comes out?1930New Statesman 1 Nov. 114/1 The Little Review, born in Chicago, a ‘sub-deb’ in California, debutante in New York, defunct in Paris.1936M. H. Bradley Five-Minute Girl 116 Margaret, two years older than Alva..and there was Joyce, the subdeb.1939[see dating vbl. n. c].1944W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge vii. 278 The living-room would do very well for the sub-deb dances which it would be her pleasant duty to give.1947Time 6 Jan. 20/3 The season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked on.
Also sub-ˈdebutante U.S.
1934in Webster.1959V. Packard Status Seekers xiii. 186 The girl..must be invited to the right sub⁓debutante parties.

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