3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

spangled

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Spangle \Span"gle\, verb (used with an object) [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.

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.

{Spangled coquette} (Zo["o]l.), a tropical humming bird ({Lophornis regin[ae]}). See {Coquette}, 2.

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

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