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span⋅gle

  [spang-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.
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–noun
1. a small, thin, often circular piece of glittering metal or other material, used esp. for decorating garments.
2. any small, bright drop, object, spot, or the like.
–verb (used with object)
3. to decorate with spangles.
4. to sprinkle or stud with small, bright pieces, objects, spots, etc.
–verb (used without object)
5. to glitter with or like spangles.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME spangele (n.), equiv. to spange spangle (perh. < MD) + -le -le

Related forms:
spangly, adjective
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span·gle   (spāng'gəl)   
n.  
  1. A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration.
  2. A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight.
v.   span·gled, span·gling, span·gles

v.   tr.
To adorn or cause to sparkle by covering with or as if with spangles: Lights spangled the night skyline.
v.   intr.
To sparkle in the manner of spangles.

[Middle English spangel, diminutive of spange, from Middle Dutch, clasp; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
span'gly adj.
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Spangle

Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See Spang a spangle.]

1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." --Waller.

Oak spangle. See under Oak.

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.

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

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

Spangle

Span"gle\, v. i. To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

Some men by feigning words as dark as mine Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine. --Bunyan.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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spangle

n. [UK] The singular of bells and whistles. See also spungle.
Jargon File 4.2.0
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spangle 
c.1420, dim. of spang "glittering ornament, spangle," probably from M.Du. spange "brooch, clasp," cognate with O.E. spang "buckle, clasp," from P.Gmc. *spango, from an extended form of the root of span (2). The verb is attested from 1548.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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