The Collaborative International Dictionary
Star-spangled \Star"-span`gled\ (st[aum]r"-sp[a^][ng]`g'ld), a. Spangled or studded with stars.
Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national
ensign of the United States; also the name of a poem, the
words of which were composed by Francis Scott Key, which
was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.
--F. S. Key.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "star-spangled".
The curved architraves rise at each extremity like two menacing horns, pointing upward toward the far-off blue canopy of the star-spangled sky, as if they would communicate to the gods the knowledge they have acquired in the depths of their foundations from the earth, full of sepulchres and death, which surrounds them.
And, still excited by the mountain air, I whipped out my sword, and in default of a star-spangled banner to plant on the newly-acquired territory, traced in gigantic letters on the snow-crust--U.
Star-Spangled Banner and constitutional form of government, now so violently assailed by disloyal American citizens, as well as by Marxian rebels from abroad who have deceived many of the uneducated or trained them in ways of evil.
Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it?
On that side the plain spread far away into a dark, unknown region, beneath the star-spangled sky, which on the very horizon showed a ruddy reflection like that of some brasier, the reflection of nocturnal Paris, blazing and smoking in the darkness like a volcano.
As Sam and the flagbearer walked down the aisle toward the throne, a recording of “The Star-Spangled Banner” blared out.
I wanted no flag but the Star-Spangled Banner, no song besides 'Hail Columbia.
Glanton is from Texas, original, and whilst he is a sentimental cuss in repose he's a ring-tailed whizzer with star-spangled wheels when his feelings is ruffled.
From his neck to his knees, in ample folds, a robe swept down that was a very star-spangled banner of curved and sinuous bars of black and white.
Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there.
Those ancient stargazers with their flamboyant star-spangled robes and their conical hats and their long beards weren't so dumb!
He twiddled the controls and the sky outside the flyer turned from cobalt to star-spangled black.