Bespangled

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bespangled}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Bespangling}.]
     To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
     brilliant or glittering.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
                                                    --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bespangled \bespangled\ adj.
     covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
  
     Syn: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled,
          jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bespangled
       adj : covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: {beaded}, {beady},
              {bejeweled}, {bejewelled}, {gemmed}, {jeweled}, {jewelled},
              {sequined}, {spangled}, {spangly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "bespangled":
     ablaze, adorned, aglow, alight, bathed with light, beaded,
     bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, blotched,
     blotchy, brightened, candlelit, decked out, decorated, dotted,
     dotty, embellished, enlightened, feathered, festooned, figured,
     firelit, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flowered, frecked,
     freckled, freckly, garnished, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze,
     irradiate, irradiated, jeweled, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted,
     lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, macular, maculate, maculated,
     moonlit, ornamented, patchy, peppered, plumed, pocked, pockmarked,
     pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled,
     spangly, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched,
     splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, star-spangled, star-studded,
     starlit, stippled, studded, sunlit, tinseled, tricked out, trimmed,
     wreathed