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Answer for the clue "Society ingenue ", 9 letters:
debutante

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A debutante is a girl or young lady from an aristocratic or upper-class family introduced to society at a formal "debut" presentation.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a young woman making her debut into society [syn: deb ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, "female stage actress making her first public performance," from fem. of French debutant (q.v.). In reference to a young woman making her first appearance in society, from 1817.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In mid-September, she was one of ten debutantes invited to join and choose the membership of the 1911 Sewing Circle. ▪ It is a proper school, not just a training ground for debutantes. ▪ One of this year's debutantes, Primrose ...

Usage examples of debutante.

Tonight, in the deep aquamarine which was rather daring for an unmarried lady, albeit one of more mature years than the debutantes, she looked particularly attractive.

He knocks over three debutantes and a banker worth ten million dollars making for the patio wall and trying to keep trees and bushes between him and Mr.

In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms and cabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes, predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successful good-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses and ballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.

She was forever being chaperoned about by her mother or some other elderly female relative, which was all very well for a new debutante but decidedly slow for a lady of twenty three.

He was out of London, away from the simpering debutantes and their grasping mamas, and he'd somehow found himself in the company of this delightful young woman, who probably wasn't blackmailing his aunt, and even if she was—well, his heart hadn't raced so much in years as when she'd touched her finger to his lips.

Millicent, whod been killed shortly after her debutante coming-out party, won the massive arm of a weightlifter and wore it around her neck like a fine fur.

There's nothing but housewives haggling at pushcarts, drooling brats who write dirty words on the sidewalks, and drunken debutantes.

The annual competition for Miami's Orange Bowl queen had attracted the usual chorus line of debutantes, fashion models, ex-cheerleaders, and slick sorority tarts.

So that was a debutante, a glamour girl, that skinny little thing with the messy mascara.

Police said the victim, a stunning redhaired former debutante from the exclusive Grosse Pointe area in Michigan, had suffered a single blow from a blunt don't step on that!

He lived in the family villa, had classical good looks, was charming and greganous, and a target for all the eager debutantes in Hobe Sound, Philadelphia, and Long Island.

From sweetskinned debutantes in rose gardens to toothless harridans who took all his money and kept telling him to hurry up.