spangling

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English

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Etymology

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From spangle +‎ -ing.

Adjective

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spangling (comparative more spangling, superlative most spangling)

  1. That spangles; glittering, sparkling.
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. []”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. [], volume I, London: Edward Moxon [], published 1839, →OCLC, page 220:
      It was a crumbling heap, whose portal dark / With blooming ivy trails was overgrown; / Upon whose floor the spangling sands were strown, / And rarest sea-shells, which the eternal flood, / Slave to the mother of the months, had thrown / Within the walls of that gray tower, []

Noun

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spangling (plural spanglings)

  1. A sparkling metallic ornamentation.
  2. gerund of spangle: the act of fixing spangles or sparkling objects to something.

Verb

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spangling

  1. present participle and gerund of spangle