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bespangle

bespangle verb: to cover something with spangles.

Verb

bespangle (third-person singular simple present bespangles, present participle bespangling, simple past and past participle bespangled)

  1. To cover something with spangles.
    • Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical...
    • He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20

Forms of bespangle

third-person singular presentbespangles
present participlebespangling
past participlebespangled
pastbespangled

Origin of bespangle

From be- + spangle.

Questions about bespangle

What does bespangle mean?
Bespangle means to cover something with spangles.
What part of speech is bespangle?
Bespangle is a verb.
What is the past tense of bespangle?
The past tense of bespangle is bespangled.

Words near bespangle in the dictionary

  1. besoured
  2. besow
  3. besows
  4. besozzlement
  5. bespake
  6. bespangle
  7. bespangled
  8. bespangles
  9. bespangling
  10. besparkle
  11. besparkled

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