All 20 Uses
debut
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
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- By the time a girl is finally ready to make her debut as an apprentice, she needs to have established a relationship with a more experienced geisha.†
p. 128.1
- She added the "to-be" because Mameha and I wouldn't officially be sisters until the time of my debut as an apprentice geisha.†
p. 145.4
- When she was satisfied that I understood her, she said: "Following your debut, you'll be an apprentice geisha until the age of eighteen.†
p. 150.1
- During the spring of 1934, after I'd been in training for more than two years, Hatsumomo and Mother decided that the time had come for Pumpkin to make her debut as an apprentice geisha.†
p. 154.1
- Her eyes never met mine for more than a flicker of an instant; probably she couldn't help thinking of the effect her debut was having on me.†
p. 154.6
- I was very eager to tell Mameha about Pumpkin's debut.†
p. 155.7
- I told Mameha that afternoon about Pumpkin's debut; and for months afterward I hoped she would say the time had come for my apprenticeship to begin as well.†
p. 157.7
- She was delaying my debut to give everyone time to take notice of me.†
p. 158.4
- "I mean to say that I've been speaking with Waza-san"—this was the name of her fortune-teller—"and he has suggested the third day in November as a suitable time for your debut."†
p. 158.8
- Let's agree, then, that you'll be ready to make your debut as soon as you've stopped a man in his tracks just by flicking your eyes at him.†
p. 159.7
- I was so eager to make my debut that even if Mameha had challenged me to make a tree fall by looking at it, I'm sure I would have tried.†
p. 159.8
- And with that, she led me across the main avenue to the apartment of Waza-san, her fortune-teller, and set him to work finding auspicious dates for all the various events that would lead up to my debut—such as going to the shrine to announce my intentions to the gods, and having my hair done for the first time, and performing the ceremony that would make sisters of Mameha and me.†
p. 161.1
- I don't know if this will make sense to you, but my mind on the eve of my debut was like a garden in which the flowers have only begun to poke their faces up through the soil, so that it is still impossible to tell how things will look.†
p. 161.9
- I've heard it said that the week in which a young girl prepares for her debut as an apprentice geisha is like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
p. 162.1 *debut = first presentation
- Every afternoon during the week leading up to my debut, Auntie dressed me in the complete regalia of an apprentice geisha and made me walk up and down the dirt corridor of the okiya to build up my strength.†
p. 165.1
- This is exactly what happened to Hatsumomo in my eyes after she brought my debut to a standstill.†
p. 183.1
- Hatsumomo had certainly pushed her from the very day of her debut, so much that she'd begun to lose weight lately and hardly looked herself.†
p. 189.4
- It's true that in the better geisha districts of Tokyo, such as Shimbashi and Akasaka, a girl must master the arts if she expects to make her debut.†
p. 255.9
- I could sense that he was losing patience; heaven knows he'd certainly been kind in the months since I'd made my debut, permitting me to attend to him while he ate lunch and allowing Mameha to bring me to the party at his Kyoto estate.†
p. 260.5
- After ten or fifteen minutes the two women agreed on a figure representing how much I'd earned since my debut.†
p. 298.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(debut) a first presentationin various senses, including:
- the first performance of a new play
- the introduction of a new product
- the introduction of a young woman to society at a social event held in her honor (a debutante ball)
In the United States a small percentage of young woman are debuted at a debutante ball. The custom is most common in the South.
In the Hispanic culture, a similar custom is called Quinceañera. There are many varying debutante customs around the world. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)