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Spangle  v. t.  (past & past part. spangled; pres. part. spangling)  To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate. "What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?"
Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird (Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.






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"Spangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... spangle of the wave! Loveliest spot that Albion's waters lave! Hail, beauteous isle! thou gem of perfumed green, Fancy's gay region, and enchantment's scone. Here where luxuriant Nature pours, In frolic mood, her choicest stores, Bedecking with ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... were cut into shapes, and finished the work by accentuating the design in Eastern embroideries; They are found also in Greek tombs, and in the Middle Ages they varied from the little golden spangle to many other forms—circular rings, stars, crescents, moons, leaves, and solid pendant wedges of gold, all which approached ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... Spangle, Cedonia, Pe Ell, Cle Elum, Sallal, Chimacum, Index, Taholah, Synarep, Puyallup, Wallula, Wawawai, Wauconda, Washougal, Walla Walla, Washtucna, Wahluke, Solkulk, Newaukum, ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Spangle" :   grace, glint, beautify, glisten, gleam, spangly, embellish, adorn, adornment, decorate



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