Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A painted canvas sometimes used to form the ceiling of passenger-cars.
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Examples
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Again, while not many of these guys are head-lining movie stars except in the case of the Tudors, but you can't exactly say they're unknowns.
More casting tidbits 2009
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The more head-lining grabbing event in Washington yesterday was the testimony to the Senate and House intelligence committees and media briefs by US intelligence officials regarding the Israeli strike on a Syrian facility in September '07 and North Korean involvement in that facility.
Daniel Levy: Bush's Washington Moves to Off-Off Broadway on Middle East Peace 2008
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Crazy coolness, VERY appropriate, and about goddamn time ya'll had some kick ass head-lining !
We're Quoted on the Hell Ride Newspaper Ad! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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He peered anxiously into the interior of the hat, and eventually turned down the head-lining; and immediately there broke out upon his face a gleam of satisfaction.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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I handed him the instrument, and he proceeded to pick out daintily from the space behind the head-lining some half a dozen short pieces of hair, which he laid, with infinite tenderness, on a sheet of white paper.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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A fresh receiver having been fitted on, the nozzle was now drawn over the silk lining of the hat, and then through the space behind the leather head-lining on one side; and now the dust that collected in the receiver was much of the usual grey colour and fluffy texture, and included two more hairs.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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It's all a question of head-lining, which is the bluff by which the public is induced to read matter it would otherwise skip.
Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920 Various 1898
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- In New Orleans, the papers are head-lining how Drew Brees is falling behind in the MVP Race and how Peyton Manning is jumping way ahead.
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A three-spoked, leather-covered sports steering wheel is standard, however, as are anthracite head-lining, piano black trim and an easy-to-read sports speedometer.
Motoring 2008
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A three-spoked, leather-covered sports steering wheel is standard, however, as are anthracite head-lining, piano black trim and an easy-to-read sports speedometer.
Motoring 2008
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