Spangled

3 definitions found

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

  Spangle \Span"gle\, v. 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
     breastplate. --Donne.
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           What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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     {Spangled coquette} (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
        ({Lophornis reginae}). See {Coquette}, 2.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "spangled":
     ablaze, adorned, aglow, alight, bathed with light, beaded,
     bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled,
     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,
     spangly, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched,
     splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, star-spangled, star-studded,
     starlit, stippled, studded, sunlit, tinseled, tricked out, trimmed,
     wreathed