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bespangle, v.|bɪˈspæŋg(ə)l|
[f. be- 6 + spangle.]
1. trans. To set about with spangles; to besprinkle or adorn with small glittering objects.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. Notes 214 Every lofty top, which late the humorous night Bespangled had with pearle. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 80 [Stars] to adorn and bespangle a canopy over our heads. 1862G. Lloyd Tasmania iii. 36 The genial morning dews..that used to glisten upon and bespangle the vernal-leaved kangaroo grass?
2. fig.
1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 115 Being bespangled with holiness and clad with the royal robe of righteousness. 1800W. Taylor in Month. Mag. X. 425 Other admirable similies bespangle this book. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. viii. 374 The subtilties and conceits with which the ancient Castilian verse is so liberally bespangled.
Hence beˈspangled ppl. a., beˈspangling vbl. n.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 144 Women..sumptuously pearled and bespangled. 1611Cotgr., Papillottement, a bespangling. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 118 Under a bespangled Canopie, the Firmament. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. v. i. 226 Uprushing pillars, star-bespangled roofs. |