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Definition of Spangles
1. spangle [v] - See also: spangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spangles
Literary usage of Spangles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A greenish or white quartzite, having spangles of mica, or a greenish chlorite,
or both, is said to come from India and is occasionally sold as jade. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"11 Sei Am 116:495 My 19 '17 Old days of sawdust and spangles. Lit Digest 55:50+
As 18 '17 Under the big tops. 11 Int Socialist R 17:486- il Everybody's ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... With trailing garments through the air they came, Or walked the ground with
girded loins, and threw spangles of silvery frost upon the grass, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from the American Dictionary by Noah Webster (1833)
"Be-think', i'. t. and i. j>. bethought • to reflect, reask earnestly, to supplicate.
Be-span"-glc, v. I. to adorn with spangles. ..."
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