coming-out party en · NOUN
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A celebratory social gathering, with music, dancing, and refreshments, at which a young debutante is formally introduced to society.
"I'll give her a real coming-out party when she's eighteen and the very prettiest dress that's to be had."
1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 4, in Further Chronicles of Avonlea:"Julie left Miss Bence's School at seventeen, had a coming-out party in our city house the following winter."
1914, Kathleen Norris, chapter 3, in Saturday's Child:"Now tell me, when do you mean to have your coming-out party? I ask because I've nothing ready and want plenty of time, for I suppose it will be the event of the season."
1876, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 2, in Rose in Bloom:
- (humorous, sometimes) A party in celebration of someone who is gay coming out of the closet.
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Translations (3)
fr bal des débutantes (celebratory social gathering, with music, dancing, and refreshments, at which a young debutante is formally introduced to society) · pl impreza debiutowa (celebratory social gathering, with music, dancing, and refreshments, at which a young debutante is formally introduced to society) · fi debytanttijuhlat (celebratory social gathering, with music, dancing, and refreshments, at which a young debutante is formally introduced to society)