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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
starlet
noun
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▪ Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16-8-0.
▪ But never mind, the starlets of Hollywood, sorry, Hollyswamp aren't too far away.
▪ He clearly viewed my sharp nose and dark beard in a more favorable light than the starlets had.
▪ Meanwhile, those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between.
▪ One day at the beach, they encountered a beautiful blonde starlet called Lila Leeds, something of a Lana Turner lookalike.
▪ She makes me feel like a starlet.
▪ The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer, and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines.
▪ They appeared with starlets at cabarets, guested on game shows and even flirted with politics, always wearing their masks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
starlet

1825, "small star," from star (n.) + diminutive suffix -let. Meaning "promising young female performer" is from 1911 [Italian soprano Emma Trentini (1878-1959), so called in "The Theatre" magazine, March 1911].

Wiktionary
starlet

n. A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.

WordNet
starlet

n. a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star

Wikipedia
Starlet

Starlet may refer to:

Entertainment
  • A young actress or singer, especially one working her way up through the Star System
  • Starlet (film), a 2012 independent dramatic film directed by Sean Baker
  • The Starlet, reality TV show
  • The Starlets, a girl group
Education
  • Starlets Academy, a school in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Transport
  • Toyota Starlet, car
  • Corby Starlet, airplane
  • Stolp SA-500 Starlet, American homebuilt aircraft design
Other
  • Starlet sea anemone, a species of sea anemone native to the east coast of the United States
Starlet (film)

Starlet is a 2012 independent dramatic film by director Sean S. Baker starring Dree Hemingway and newcomer Besedka Johnson. Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane and 85-year-old Sadie, two women whose lives intersect in California's San Fernando Valley.

Usage examples of "starlet".

Lindsay struck a movie starlet pose, pushed out her breasts, tilted her nose in the air and flicked her hair behind her shoulder.

Elvis had been right, that it felt like plaster of Paris, Lindsay felt gorgeous--glowing in fact--like a starlet herself.

There may be some universe in which it is iconoclastic for anemic Hollywood starlets to denigrate the Catholic Church.

With no other woman, not even with the hottest of starlets, had he been as elated, granite-hardened, and oddly enough, soothed, in the way he was now with Kira.

He liked starlets and models, topless dancers and magazine centerfolds, his taste typically running toward women with more cleavage than brains.

They recruit conservatives the way colleges recruit star athletes, deploying celebrity starlets as comfort women.

Not only will you not be lavished with jobs, money, and celebrity starlets - you will be unemployable, unpublished, and embarrassed.

She was not just pretty, she was beautiful, and the way models and starlets are beautiful.

That must be quite an accomplishment considering the room was filled with gorgeous starlets that surrounded her on all sides.

In four weeks, the youngsters would show everyone that they were could rise above their poverty and lack of education to shine like gleaming starlets born in the summer sky.

He had come back to astound his friends in New York with tales of his sexual prowess among the starlets, and his modicum of success in the cinema.

Eisenhower beat his Democratic rival, Adlai Stevenson, in the US presidential election, and in Hollywood, one of the few bright moments in a dull year was the debut appearance of a stunning blond starlet named Marilyn Monroe.

Corporation gossip had her running with a procession of pretty if airheaded starlets, none of whom seemed to last for more than a couple of weeks.

She was not just pretty, she was beautiful, and the way models and starlets are beautiful.

Each one had taken the secret to his grave, and there were simsense starlets whose careers had lasted longer than my friends did once they knew.