title card

[ tahyt-l kahrd ]

noun

1. intertitle ( def ).
2. a card with the title of a book or the name of another object in a library collection, traditionally organized in alphabetical order in the library’s card catalog:

   Each record should have a main title card.

Word History and Origins

Origin of title card¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The series takes place, as the opening title card reads, “766 days before Hiroshima” in a desert community called Los Alamos.

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The beloved pet now appears on the end title card for each episode.

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It’s written in a ‘50s script, like the title card to I Love Lucy, evoking Old Hollywood.

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“Some of this actually happened,” a title card reads before the film.

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The opening title card to Inside Llewyn Davis tells us that it is winter 1961 at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village.

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The title-card, furthermore, is of the same color as that used for the part of speech to which it refers.

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