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bespangles

bespangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

Questions about bespangles

What is bespangles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bespangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bespangle.

Words near bespangles in the dictionary

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

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