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Bedeck with small stars
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spangle
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spangle \Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See Spang a spangle.] A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. ``The rich ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing [syn: sequin , diamante ] v. glitter as if covered with spangles decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: bespangle ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A cornucopia of rare minerals leapt before him, spangled by street light as it softened through leaf. ▪ A lovely white hand, spangled and professionally looked after, gripped Lois's arm for an intimate squeeze. ▪ The curtains ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "cover with spangles," from spangle (n.). Intransitive meaning "glitter, glisten" is from 1630s. Related: Spangled ; spangling .
Usage examples of spangle.
But the day dawned so unrealistically spangled with light and beauty that the world seemed a pleasant place and brimful of promise.
The other wore a more ordinary costume of white, with a white burnous and a turban spangled with gold.
He was slim almost to skinniness, and his tights were spangled electric-blue all over.
In darkness, and the pure and spangling snow Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round!
And the bright beams of frosty morning dance Along the spangling snow.
Upward in tight spirals they climbed, all the way to the starbursts spangling the firmament.
General, for hundreds to see and admire, that Miss Celia had consented, much against her will, and hastily arranged some bits of spangled tarlatan over the white cotton suit which was to simulate the regulation tights.
It contained a real bought doll, with a china head and a cloth body, who was gorgeously and airily attired in pink tarlatan with silver spangles.
Yama stood at the beginning of a corkscrew ramp, looking straight across the throughway at the tops of sleds and carts and wagons that, spangled with lanterns, streamed past as if clinging to a sheer wall.
The third, in the discoloured mantle spangled all over, is Euphantaste, a well-conceited Wittiness, and employed in honouring the court with the riches of her pure invention.
The sun stood nearly its own height above the horizon in a sky where a sprinkling of white clouds drifted slowly, and children ran playing with hoops and balls while the showfolk were limbering up for their morning performances, men and women twisting and stretching, many with glittering, colorful spangles on their coats or dresses.
Once Domini saw two women, in thin, floating white dresses and spangled veils, hurrying by like ghosts in the dark.
Next was the Kinderhook County Saddle Club in spangled, equestrian splendor, and homemade floats sponsored by civic groups, the 4-H, Boy and Girl Scout troops and various churches.
The deep metallic blue vest embroidered with silver and the short Mauresque jacket spangled and sewn with turquoises became her wonderfully.
I twirled Toni and I sucked Sue and the visions of the gray gomere twats and the diseased white and black and native American and under- and overprivileged twats were replaced by fuzzy blond Danish twats and a neat little clit writhing in those spangled gluteal folds.