début vs semblance

début

noun
  • A person’s or thing’s first appearance before society or another audience; one’s “maiden voyage”. 

verb
  • To make one's début. 

semblance

noun
  • the way something looks; appearance; form 

  • likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar. 

How often have the words début and semblance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )