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Webster 1913 Edition
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
.Span′gle
,Verb.
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
breastplateDonne.
What stars do
spangle
heaven with such beauty? Shakespeare
Span′gle
,Verb.
I.
To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
Some men by feigning words as dark as mine
Make truth to
Make truth to
spangle
, and its rays to shine. Bunyan.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spangle
SPAN'GLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
spangle
spangle
English
Noun
spangle (plural spangles)
- A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
- Any small sparkling object.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Waller
- the rich spangles that adorn the sky
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Waller
Translations
a small sparkling particle sewn on cloth as a decoration
Verb
spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)
- (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
- (transitive) To fix spangles to; to adorn with small, brilliant bodies.
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare