Talk:Celebutante

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[edit] Not in the Dictionary

It is not in the Oxford English Dictionary, if you do a search for it at the official Oxford English Dictionary site it is not listed there, when you search the dictionary for Celebutante it comes up with "Sorry, there were no results for your search." http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/?view=uk Although there is a reference to this, it is from a newspaper and this is not proof that it is true. Celebutante would never be in the Oxford English Dictionary as it is an Americanisum and a slang word.

[edit] Merger Proposal

I move that we merge this article with the article "Developmental Disability." Pygmypony 05:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Age Limits

A debutante is traditionally a young woman, just entering "society".

Suppose someone is pronounced a celebutante at age 20, and that they stay a celebrity for the next 40 or more years, when do they stop being a celebutante?

We need some kind of a cut-off age. If the term celebutante was in use when Elizabeth Taylor was twenty, she probably would have been called a celebutante. Would she still be one?

Wanderer57 (talk) 17:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

No. Eleven even (talk) 10:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. How about at age 40? 30? 25?

It seems to me 25 would be a reasonable upper limit for "celebutante". Wanderer57 (talk) 17:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)