leaderette

From leader + -ette.

• Rhymes: -ɛt

leaderette (plural leaderettes)

1. A short editorial, or a paragraph in an editorial.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone. We must bring the man to his bearings. I'll have a leaderette on him to-morrow that will raise a blister."