Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adorn with spangles; dot or sprinkle with small glittering objects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cover something with
spangles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb decorate with spangles
- verb dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects
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Examples
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I always reside in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in maidens, in ornaments and good vestments, in sacrifices, in clouds charged with rain, in full-blown lotuses, and in those stars that bespangle the autumnal firmament.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity.
Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper
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Just enough light for the dullest colors, the faintest reflections to produce an admirable effect, from the reddish-gray tone of the monuments to the gleams of jet which bespangle a woman's dress.
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The fixed stars which enamel and bespangle the concave expanse, or canopy of heaven, by numbers and lustre, make the night beauteous and delightful, which would otherwise be dark and horrible.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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The clouds bespangle with bright gold their blue: 45
Invocation 1919
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For if the dead appear to the living mainly in the hours of darkness, it seems not unnatural to imagine that the bright points of light which then bespangle the canopy of heaven are either the souls of the departed or fires kindled by them in their home aloft.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.
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Just enough light for the dullest colors, the faintest reflections to produce an admirable effect, from the reddish-gray tone of the monuments to the gleams of jet which bespangle a woman's dress.
Fromont and Risler — Complete Alphonse Daudet 1868
madmouth commented on the word bespangle
"Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree."
-from Corinna's Going A-Maying
January 14, 2010