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Traditional English :: starlet
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starlet.html - n.
1 a promising young performer, esp. a woman.
2 a little star. |
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Traditional English :: starlet
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starlet.html - n.
1 a promising young performer, esp. a woman.
2 a little star. |
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Traditional English :: starlight
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starlet.html - n.
1 the light of the stars (walked home by starlight).
2 (attrib.) = STARLIT (a starlight night). |
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Traditional English :: starling(1)
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starlet.html - n. 1 a small gregarious partly migratory bird, Sturnus vulgaris, with blackish-brown speckled lustrous plumage, chiefly inhabiting cultivated areas. 2 any similar bird of the family Sturnidae. [OE str starling f. Gmc: cf. -LING(1) ] |
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Traditional English :: starling(2)
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starlet.html - n. piles built around or upstream of a bridge or pier to protect it from floating rubbish etc. [perh. corrupt. of (now dial.) staddling STADDLE] |
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Traditional English :: starlit
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starlet.html - adj.
1 lighted by stars.
2 with stars visible. |
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