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Spangle

noun

Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing. Synonyms: diamante, sequin.

verb

(past & past part. spangled; pres. part. spangling)

Glitter as if covered with spangles.

Decorate with spangles. Synonym: bespangle.

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"Spangle" Quotes from Famous Books

... gentle Mistris, where away: Tell me sweete Kate, and tell me truely too, Hast thou beheld a fresher Gentlewoman: Such warre of white and red within her cheekes: What stars do spangle heauen with such beautie, As those two eyes become that heauenly face? Faire louely Maide, once more good day to thee: Sweete Kate embrace her for ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... gentle mistress; where away? Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too, Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman? Such war of white and red within her cheeks! What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty As those two eyes become that heavenly face? Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee. Sweet Kate, embrace her ...

— The Taming of the Shrew • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... spangles, hiding the thread with which each one was attached with a tiny round of gold twist, lifted up her head from time to time and gave him a calm motherly look, whenever she was obliged to throw into the waste-basket a spangle that ...

— The Dream • Emile Zola

... that we were a practical people) we might have saved in a few years a quarter of a million of our golden coins. 'Spangles,' said His Majesty, who had lately seen me weighing one of the golden likenesses of our beloved Queen against a Brobdingnag spangle that had fallen from the dress of some maid of honour. Spangles or not, I replied, they were very dear to us, dearer than body and soul to some, so that we were wont to say when a man died, that ...

— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps

... I mean by ornament. I mean anything stuck in or on, like a spangle, because it is pretty in itself, although it reveals nothing. Not one such ornament can belong to a polished style. It is paint, not polish. And if this is not what my questioner means by ornament, my answer must then be read according to the differences in his definition of the ...

— A Dish Of Orts • George MacDonald

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