spangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɡ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈspæŋɡəl/
ipa: /ˈspeɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: spangles
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Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English spangel (“small piece of ornamental metal, spangle; small ornament”) [and other forms], from spang (“small piece of ornamental metal, spangle; small ornament; type of bowl or cup”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Spang is derived from Middle Dutch spange, spaenge (“buckle, clasp; brooch; spangle”) (modern Dutch spang (“clasp; hook; metal hairband; metal pin”)), from Middle Low German spangel (“small chain or clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *spangō (“brooch; clasp”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to twist; to weave”). The English word is analysable as spang + -le (diminutive suffix).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: What ſtars do ſpangle heauen with ſuch beautie, / As thoſe two eyes become that heauenly face?
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 226, column 1:
text: Chapadór, m. one that plateth ouer, or ſpangleth.
ref: 1599, Iohn Minsheu [i.e., John Minsheu], “Chapadór”, in A Dictionarie in Spanish and English, […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, →OCLC, page 65, column 2:
text: This is Timons laſt, / Who ſtucke and ſpangled you with Flatteries, / Waſhes it off, and ſprinkles in your faces / Your reeking villany.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], page 89, column 2:
text: [H]er Reign / With thouſand leſſer Lights dividual holds, / With thouſand thouſand Starres, that then appeer'd / Spangling the Hemiſphere: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 381–384:
text: [T]he Cohort bright / Of watchful Cherubim; four faces each / Had, like a double Janus, all thir ſhape / Spangl'd with eyes more numerous then thoſe / Of Argus, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 127–131:
text: The Villages, that lie ſpangled about this vaſt Circumference, as well on the other Side the noble Thames, […] are beautiful, both by Buildings and Situation, beyond what I had imagined; and ſeveral of them ſeem larger than many of our Country Towns of Note.
ref: 1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter II. From Mrs. B. to Lady Davers.”, in Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by J. Osborn, […]; and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:
text: [D]ancing in reflected glow, / An hundred torches play'd, / Spangling the wave with lights as vain / As pleasures in this vale of pain, / That dazzle as they fade.
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, “Canto First”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 31:
text: Thou mad'st the spacious vault on high, / And thou, in gorgeous wide display, / Spanglest with stars the deep blue sky, […]
ref: 1827 November, G[eorge] W[illiam] B[irkett], “Paraphrase of Psalm VIII”, in The Christian Remembrancer, or, The Churchman’s Biblical, Ecclesiastical, & Literary Miscellany, volume IX, number XI, London: […] [Richard Clay] for C[harles] & J[ohn] Rivington, […]; and sold by J. Parker, […], →OCLC, stanza 5, page 693, column 1:
text: What an odour of musk and bergamot exhales from the pew!—how it is wadded, and stuffed, and spangled over with brass nails! what hassocks are there for those who are not too fat to kneel!
ref: 1840 June, [William Makepeace Thackeray], An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. […], [London]: Henry Hooper, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 24:
text: When the birds wake to music, and lift up their song, / And thou spanglest with glory the dewy clad thorn; […]
ref: 1851 July, E. B., “Day-break”, in The Literary Garland, and British North American Magazine: […], volume IX (New Series), number 7, Montreal, Que.: John Lovell, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 307, column 2:
glosses: To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
examples: text: It seems it is in fashion with you to sugar your papers with Carnation phrases, and spangle your speeches with new quodled words.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC; The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (Force’s Collection of Historical Tracts; vol. III, no. 8), 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Daniel Henchman, […]; [Washington, D.C.: W. Q. Force], 1713 (1844 printing), →OCLC, page 55:
text: On the morning of July 31, the mountain rose spangled in the summer sun 2,300 feet above Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli. Strapping on three oxygen tanks, the two men faced toward K2's last fastness.
ref: 1954 October 11, “Assault on the Summit: The Conquerors' Account”, in Life, volume 37, number 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: To adorn or decorate (something).
examples: text: The gifts are differing, being diverse; their administrations are differing, and the operations of them also are differing, though all those things are from that one and the self-same Spirit, working in every one severally as he pleases. All these things will spangle in the New Jerusalem, and carry their full breadth and sway as in the days of old.
ref: 1665, John Bunyan, “ The Holy City; or, The New Jerusalem: […]”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume I, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1863, →OCLC, page 316, column 1:
synonyms: coruscate
scintillate
glosses: To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
Derived terms: word: bespangle
word: spangled
word: spangled kookaburra
word: spangler
word: spangling
word: Star-Spangled Banner
word: unspangled