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bespangling

bespangling is the present participle and gerund 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 bespangling

What is bespangling the present participle and gerund of?
Bespangling is the present participle and gerund of bespangle.

Words near bespangling in the dictionary

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

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