vbl. sb. [-ING1.] The action of the verb STAR; spec. the acting or touring of a star performer (in quots. attrib.).
1859. F. Fowler, Southern Lights, 36. I heard that Mr. Brooke had netted upwards of 30,000l. during his starring career in the colony.
1864. Dasent, Jest & Earnest (1873), I. 180. In London, where the starring system prevails to a stifling extent, we have sometimes one good actor, supported, like a sweet pea, by sticks.
1868. Miss Braddon, Dead-sea Fruit, xxvi. II. 287. He was the enchantresss alter ego, arranging her starring engagements.
18823. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1358. He made a second starring-tour as rhetorician.