Spangle

Quick meaning: Spangle is a noun meaning A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.

Meaning

A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.

More Meanings

1. Any small sparkling object.
2. A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
3. A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
4. Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
5. To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
6. To adorn or decorate (something).
7. (intransitive) To flash, glitter, or sparkle.

Example Sentences

The other Knight was all in milke white, his attiring els, all cutte in starres, which made of cloath of silver, and silver spangles, each way seemed to cast many aspects.

[…] 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 adviſeable in the Emperor to take the firſt fair Occaſion of diſmiſſing me.

A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles, which had seen as hard service, and boasted as honourable a transmission, was next flung over one shoulder, and fell across her person in the manner of a shoulder-belt or baldrick.

His wardrobe was extensive—very extensive—not strictly classical perhaps, nor quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but every thing was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles?

Word Forms

• spangles
• spangling
• spangled
• spanglest
• spangledst
• spangleth

Synonyms for spangle

Depending on context, synonyms include paillette, coruscate, scintillate, sequin, bespangle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bespangle, sequin, galls, paillette, spang, spanglet.

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