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Bespangle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bespangle v. [f. BE- 6 + SPANGLE.]

1   1.  trans. To set about with spangles; to besprinkle or adorn with small glittering objects.

2 1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. Notes 214. Every lofty top, which late the humorous night Bespangled had with pearle.

3 1722.  Wollaston, Relig. Nat., v. 80. [Stars] to adorn and bespangle a canopy over our heads.

4 1862.  G. Lloyd, Tasmania, lii. 36. The genial morning dews … that used to glisten and bespangle the vernal-leaved kangaroo grass?

5   2.  fig.

6 1675.  Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 115. Being bespangled with holiness and clad with the royal robe of righteousness.

7 1800.  W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., X. 426/1. Other admirable similies bespangle this book.

8 1846.  Prescott, Ferd. & Is., I. viii. 374. The subtilties and conceits with which the ancient Castilian verse is so liberally bespangled.

9   Hence Bespangled ppl. a., Bespangling vbl. sb.

10 1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 144. Women … sumptuously pearled and bespangled.

11 1611.  Cotgr., Papillottement, a bespangling.

12 1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 118. Under a bespangled Canopie, the Firmament.

13 1848.  Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., V. i. 226. Uprushing pillars, star-bespangled roofs.

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