SPANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spangle mean? 

• SPANGLE (noun)
  The noun SPANGLE has 1 sense:

1. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing

  Familiarity information: SPANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

• SPANGLE (verb)
  The verb SPANGLE has 2 senses:

1. glitter as if covered with spangles

2. decorate with spangles

  Familiarity information: SPANGLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diamante; sequin; spangle

Hypernyms ("spangle" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Derivation:

spangle (decorate with spangles)

spangle (glitter as if covered with spangles)

spangly (covered with beads or jewels or sequins)

• SPANGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they spangle    ... he / she / it spangles   
Past simple: spangled   
Past participle: spangled   
-ing form: spangling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Glitter as if covered with spangles

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "spangle" is one way to...):

gleam; glint; glisten; glitter; shine (be shiny, as if wet)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

spangle (adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decorate with spangles

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

bespangle; spangle

Context example:

the star-spangled banner

Hypernyms (to "spangle" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

spangle (adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing)

 Context examples 

I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Alleyne sat down willingly as directed with two great bundles on either side of him which contained the strollers' dresses—doublets of flame-colored silk and girdles of leather, spangled with brass and tin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A high dais at the further end was roofed in by a broad canopy of scarlet velvet spangled with silver fleurs-de-lis, and supported at either corner by silver rods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The most, however, were young and dandy archers, with fresh English faces, their beards combed out, their hair curling from under their close steel hufkens, with gold or jewelled earrings gleaming in their ears, while their gold-spangled baldrics, their silken belts, and the chains which many of them wore round their thick brown necks, all spoke of the brave times which they had had as free companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)