The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.] To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To cover something with spangles
WordNet
v. decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: spangle]
dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects
Usage examples of "bespangle".
Her diamond aigrette meets our view, She looks like a glow-worm dressed out, Or tulips bespangled with dew.
Yes, I would that, less generous, he would oppress, He would chain me, upbraid me, burn deep brands for hate, Than with this mask of freedom and gorgeousness Bespangle my slavery, mock my strange fate.
The very gems that now lie buried in the bosom of the ocean, would then bespangle its surface, and the dumb tenants of the watery tracts, inured to their blaze, would learn to leave the caverns of the sea and gaze upon the sun.
From horizon to horizon, the black velvet of the night sky was bespangled with an untold myriad of twinkling stars.
He had not one regret at leaving the bespangled suit, for it was the best he could command, and surely nothing could be too good for Mr.
It was in reality a heap of mould, about a foot and a half high, covered with the most delicate grass, and bespangled with daisies.
They had helped to cram the ideals down the throats of their young soldiers, had sent them marching off to war in colorful uniforms like a bunch of bespangled monkeys.
So on they went to the point, where the cyclopean wall of granite cliff which forms the western side of Lundy, ends sheer in a precipice of some three hundred feet, topped by a pile of snowwhite rock, bespangled with golden lichens.
I saw her her robe was black, bespangled with stars and glittering gems, and she rode upon the crescent moon.
Rover, suddenly taking off his maritime clothing and putting on an expensive suit of silk, bespangled with diamonds.
Why of so pure a mauve and bespangled with so many millions of snow-white crystals?
The impact started that trapeze swinging, and now the bespangled Maurice literally flashed back and forth, like blue lightning, between the two high-swinging bars, sometimes catching hold with his hands, sometimes with his bent knees, sometimes only by his toes.
The last act before the curtain call by all the performers was a magician, a magnificent magician with two bespangled women assistants whom he kept making disappear and reappear in various sections of the audience, high above on a rafter, or inside one of the four locked boxes on a raised platform.
See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet-slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Why of so pure a mauve and bespangled with so many millions of snow-white crystals?