Lede (noun) (US-Eng)
leed
The opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story. (British-Eng – Lead)
1950s: alteration of lead, first used in instructions to printers, in order to distinguish the word from text to be printed.
Example sentences
“The headline and the lede both had to be changed.”
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