star it
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star it (third-person singular simple present stars it, present participle starring it, simple past and past participle starred it)
- (archaic) To appear as a star actor, especially on a provincial tour.
- 1833, Robert Dyer, Nine Years of an Actor's Life, page 52:
- […] after a brilliant, but unprofitable career of provincial and minor management, he starred it through the country […]
- 1838, The Athenaeum, page 115:
- Grimaldi had now become the great popular actor, and when leisure permitted, he starred it, as other favourites did, at country theatres; […]