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

Like fireflies that bespangle the darkness of the night, humor scintillates through all life’s phases and activities and causes the day to go more pleasantly and effectively on.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.

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

Those orbs, seemingly countless—which bespangle the dark robe of night—have a charm and beauty of their own apart from the significance with which the science of astronomy has invested them.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

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.