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bespangled

bespangled is the simple past and past participle of bespangle.

Meaning of bespangle

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...

Adjective

bespangled (comparative more bespangled, superlative most bespangled)

  1. Adorned or beset with spangles.

Forms of bespangled

comparativemore bespangled
superlativemost bespangled

Questions about bespangled

What does bespangled mean?
Bespangled means adorned or beset with spangles.
What is bespangled the simple past and past participle of?
Bespangled is the simple past and past participle of bespangle.
What part of speech is bespangled?
Bespangled is an adjective.

Words near bespangled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bespangled (page history and authors); bespangle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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