bespangle
to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles; make sparkle brilliantly: grass bespangled with dewdrops; poetry bespangled with vivid imagery.
Origin of bespangle
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How to use bespangle in a sentence
Did ever tailor's bill, though for the most resplendent scarlet liveries bespangled with golden roses, inspire a like rhapsody!
Sir Walter Ralegh | William StebbingIn the morning the blades of grass and the webs of the spiders are bespangled with pearly dewdrops.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarThe various shaped leaves of the forest all around their village and near their nestlings are bespangled with myriads of dewdrops.
The sight is perfectly dazzling; the plain, as far as the eye can reach, extending in the same bespangled carpet of red and green.
Parsons on the Rose | Samuel Browne ParsonsThe moon has risen and shines refulgent from the azure of the star-bespangled dome of heaven.
The Iron Pincers | Eugne Sue
British Dictionary definitions for bespangle
/ (bɪˈspæŋɡəl) /
(tr) to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
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