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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spangle
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 at the tiny windows are spangled with yellow flowers.
▪ Upperparts spangled with grey or yellowish or black; no white on nape; underparts in breeding plumage largely black.
II.noun
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▪ He scouts up the lame, the netting, the Lycra, the spangles and the ticking in Tijuana fabric outlets.
▪ Other spangles of colour combine to great effect in this beautiful fish.
▪ She seemed to be wearing Anna's evening dress, long and black and trailing on the floor, winking with spangles.
▪ Watching a youth in a blue tunic and spangles performing on the slack rope, he determined to attempt a similar feat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spangle

Spangle \Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See Spang a spangle.]

  1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

  2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. ``The rich spangles that adorn the sky.''
    --Waller.

    Oak spangle. See under Oak.

Spangle

Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Spangling.] To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.
--Donne.

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?
--Shak.

Spangled coquette (Zo["o]l.), a tropical humming bird ( Lophornis regin[ae]). See Coquette, 2.

Spangle

Spangle \Span"gle\, v. i. To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

Some men by feigning words as dark as mine Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine.
--Bunyan.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spangle

early 15c., "small piece of glittering metal," diminutive of spang "glittering ornament, spangle," probably from Middle Dutch spange "brooch, clasp," cognate with Old English spang "buckle, clasp," from Proto-Germanic *spango, from an extended form of the root of span (v.).

spangle

1540s, "cover with spangles," from spangle (n.). Intransitive meaning "glitter, glisten" is from 1630s. Related: Spangled; spangling.

Wiktionary
spangle

n. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a vb. (context intransitive English) To sparkle, flash or

WordNet
spangle
  1. n. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing [syn: sequin, diamante]

  2. v. glitter as if covered with spangles

  3. decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: bespangle]

Gazetteer
Spangle, WA -- U.S. town in Washington
Population (2000): 240
Housing Units (2000): 113
Land area (2000): 0.383624 sq. miles (0.993582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.383624 sq. miles (0.993582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66290
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.430641 N, 117.377083 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99031
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Spangle

Spangle may refer to:

  • Spangle (or Sequin), a small, thin, often circular piece of glittering metal or other material, used especially for decorating garments
  • Spangle, the aesthetic feature of visible crystallites on the surface of galvanized steel
  • Spangle, Washington, USA
  • Spangle (novel), a 1987 historical novel by Gary Jennings
  • Papilio protenor, a Swallowtail butterfly commonly known as the Spangle
  • Yellow-crested Spangle
  • Spangle Lake
  • Gold Spangle, a moth of the Noctuidae family
  • Radial Spangle, an indie rock band from Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Spangle (novel)

Spangle is a historical novel written by Gary Jennings and first published in 1987.

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.