bespangle

American  

[bih-spang-guhl] / bɪˈspæŋ gəl /

verb (used with object)

bespangled, bespangling

1. to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles; make sparkle brilliantly.

   grass bespangled with dewdrops; poetry bespangled with vivid imagery.

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bespangle British  

/ bɪˈspæŋɡəl /

verb

1. (tr) to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles

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Etymology

Origin of bespangle

First recorded in 1585–95; be- + spangle

Example Sentences

Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass, or trace the delicate hoar-frost crystals which bespangle every blade on a winter's morning.

From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.

The stars, which to the number of several millions bespangle the sky, are not scattered uniformly.

From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

It exists in, and influences every atom, whose combinations compose and constitute the entire material creation, or each and every orb that bespangle the blue infinity.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

Her waters pastime sweet afford To ane an' a' wha like to angle; The seats o' mony a laird an' lord, Her plains, as stars the sky, bespangle.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Let them give up their unspeakably silly ambition to bespangle their lists of officers with these doctorial titles.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry