The phrase "a deb" is correct and usable in written English, depending on the context.
It can be used to refer to a debutante, typically in social contexts or discussions about formal events.
Example: "At the ball, she was the most radiant deb, captivating everyone with her charm."
Alternatives: "a debutante" or "a young lady".
Teddy Lynch met Getty in 1935, when she was a deb and a chanteuse at the New Yorker nightclub.
But no one's openly flouting the hunting laws, or being a deb, or wearing ball gowns or pashminas.
Daughter Polly, a deb, is very beautiful, but she has no sex appeal and there is an enigma about her, a mystery.
This institution of two supreme authorities a dharma raja for spiritual affairs and a deb raja for temporal matters existed until the death of the last dharma raja in the early 20th century.
She was, by this time, in severe reaction against her "ridiculous" privileged background, and kept very quiet in the office about being a deb whose first crush had been on the master of the Eton Beagles.
(800 550-0005; SCENT OF A DEB -- Marjorie Gubelmann Raein and Daniel Benedict's Vie Luxe all-natural body cream comes in their Palm Beach scent, part of the newly introduced Voyage Collection.
Following Cambridge she worked as a deb-ball-crashing journalist on the Evening Standard diary column, then married the film producer Richard Goodwin.
Natalie Portman: Nice enough dress - for a debs ball.
There have been rumors that the show could go on with a Deb-centric spinoff.
Presumably, the network wanted to keep "Dexter" alive for the possible spinoff that Showtime Entertainment President David Nevins has been talking about for well over a year... which doesn't quite make sense, since that was conceived as a Deb-focused spinoff, and, well, you know what happened to Deb in the series finale.
Heywood Broun, a liberal journalist and not a Debs partisan, said it was "one of the most beautiful and moving passages in the English language.
