Spangling
//ˈspæŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sparkling metallic ornamentation.
- 2 gerund of spangle: the act of fixing spangles or sparkling objects to something. form-of, gerund
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of spangle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 That spangles; glittering, sparkling.
"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, […]"
Example
More examples"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, […]"
Etymology
From spangle + -ing.
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