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Actor in his or her first role
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debutant
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Word definitions for debutant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, "male performer or speaker making his first public appearance," from French, noun use of present participle of débuter "to make the first strike" (in billiards, etc.), from debut (see debut ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A male who débuts, or appears for the first time.
Usage examples of debutant.
And now you may perhaps ask me, if the debutant artist is to have no thought of money, and if (as is implied) he is to expect no honours from the State, he may not at least look forward to the delights of popularity?
Amongst the pick of the debutants at Almack’s she must have attracted attention.
As for women, Crane frankly avoided them, partly because his greatest interests in life were things in which women had neither interest or place, but mostly because he had for years been the prime target of the man-hunting debutants and the matchmaking mothers of three continents.