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Spangle   Listen
noun
Spangle  n.  
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."
Oak spangle. See under Oak.





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"Spangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... VARIABLE STARS.—It may seem remarkable that among so many thousands of stars which spangle the firmament, there should occur no very perceptible change or variation in their aspect and brilliancy. From age to age they present the same appearance, shine with the same undiminished splendour, and rise and set with the same regularity. So that from time immemorial the stars ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... this is yet in condition to render that resplendent uniform invisible. Not a spangle of that magnificent gold embroidery can be seen, it is all overshadowed by the ragged old cloak which Munnich so much despises! Oh, the good field-marshal will rejoice to find his mantle in such good company, and I hope my cloak may leave some visible memento upon its embroidered ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach
... microscope, as some remote nebulae shining in blue gulfs of interstellar space, that no telescopic Jense can ever discover, even as a faint blur of silvery mist upon the black velvet vault that suns and planets spangle? ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... and more especially (but this will shock Mr. Wells) of salvation and damnation—and nothing can be easier than to pay to the works of the Veiled Being the meed of an illimitable wonder. When we think of the roaring vortices of flame that spangle the heavens night by night, at distances that beggar conception: when we think of our tiny earth, wrapped in its little film of atmosphere, spinning safely for ages untold amid all these appalling immensities: ...
— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer
... there is neither opening buds, green foliage, or ripening fruit, nor gorgeous frost-tints upon the leaves, I look through the bare branches of the trees better than I could in spring, summer and autumn, and lo, how beautiful are the stars that spangle the heavens and twinkle in the pale light of the moon, with maiden face sweeping through the heavens, veiled with fleecy clouds, like the bridesmaid of heaven, to direct our thoughts to the celestial city ...
— The Forest King - Wild Hunter of the Adaca • Hervey Keyes
... broad rays of gold. The gold tissue, frayed at the folds, broke out in little slender tufts; the embossed ornaments were getting tarnished and worn. There was perpetual anxiety, fluttering concern, at seeing it thus go off spangle by spangle. The priest had to wear it almost every day. And how on earth could it be replaced—how would they be able to buy the three chasubles whose place it took, when the last gold threads ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola


Words linked to "Spangle" :   beautify, bespangle, decorate, glitter, glisten, adorn, glint, diamante, adornment, gleam, spangly, shine, embellish, grace, sequin, ornament


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