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Socialite and seductress ditching husband, a composer (7)

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I believe the answer is:

debussy

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'composer' is the definition.
(Claude Debussy)

'socialite and seductress ditching husband a' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'socialite' could be 'deb' (I have seen 'Young socialite ' mean 'deb' so perhaps 'socialite' could also mean 'deb') and 'deb' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for debussy that I've seen before include "Clair de Lune composer" , "Claude -, C. nineteen-twenty French composer" , "Note-writer" , "Claude -, Fr. composer" , "Claude, impressionist composer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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