Debrettn.
/dɪˈbrɛt/ A colloquial designation of Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland. Also transferred.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 451 Her ladyship is of the Kingstreet family, see Debrett and Burke.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ix. 85 You cannot begin your genealogical studies too early; I wish..you would read in Debrett every day.
1873 Siliad 109 A curious youth..Who, ere his whiskers had completely grown, Possessed a comic paper of his own; But though wet-nursed by someone in Debrett, It died quite young.
1910 Baroness Orczy Lady Molly iv. 82 If you have studied Debrett at all, you know..that the peerage is one of those old English ones which date back some six hundred years.
1970 Guardian 18 Aug. 1/5 The 1970 Debrett was published yesterday.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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