 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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