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In literature, the term "debut" is employed to signify a first public appearance or initial entry into a particular field or social setting. It can refer to the inaugural performance on a stage, as seen when characters or real performers are introduced with dramatic flair [1][2][3], and it is equally used to mark the start of one’s career in literature or other pursuits [4][5]. The word also extends to the debut of individuals into the refined realms of society and social gatherings, emphasizing the anticipation and transformation that accompany such moments [6][7][8]. Moreover, its application is not confined solely to the arts—it can describe the onset of political or military endeavors, signaling the moment when an individual or a concept is thrust into prominence for the first time [9][10].
  1. American operatic debut of Therese Tietjens, noted dramatic soprano, as Norma , at the Academy of Music,
    — from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee
  2. Pesaroni made her grand opera debut at sixteen, and twenty-five years later we find her still one of the leading grand opera singers.
    — from What Every Singer Should Know by Millie Ryan
  3. Actress at the Bobino, Luxembourg, then at the Folies-Dramatiques, where she made her debut in "The Telegraph of Love."
    — from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe
  4. Gustave Flaubert took him under his protection and acted as a kind of literary guardian to him, guiding his debut in journalism and literature.
    — from Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant
  5. But he soon returned to literature proper, or rather made his debut in it, with the immortal book now republished.
    — from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding
  6. She was twenty, and on returning to Cuba, was to make her debut.
    — from Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
  7. Algernon was now sent forth to make his debut in society, and we shall see how strictly his progress coincides with the previous training of his mind.
    — from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill
  8. He had described her first soiree during the previous year, when she had made her debut at that mansion on her arrival in Paris.
    — from The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteLourdes, Rome and Paris by Émile Zola
  9. It would seem that Gen. Hood has made a successful [Pg 253] debut as a fighting general in command of the army, since Gen. Johnston’s removal.
    — from A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones
  10. Don Carlos Evaña had received the congratulations of Don Roderigo Ponce de Leon upon his debut as a politician with great coldness.
    — from Ponce de Leon: The Rise of the Argentine Republic by William Pilling

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