A quinceañera is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday that is common in Mexican and other Latin American cultures. The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera. In Latin America, the term quinceañera is reserved solely for the honoree; in English, primarily in the United States, the term is used to refer to the celebrations and honors surrounding the special occasion.
Mexican American girls at a quinceañera celebration in Santa Fe, New Mexico
A fiesta de quince años at the Church of San Martin in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, Mexico
Quinceañera with chambelanes
European ball, c. 1774
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl.
A woman in Selangor, Malaysia
Three generations: an older woman, her daughter, and her granddaughter.
A pregnant woman
A mother breastfeeding her baby