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Spangling

//ˈspæŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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, […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A sparkling metallic ornamentation.
  2. 2
    gerund of spangle: the act of fixing spangles or sparkling objects to something. form-of, gerund
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of spangle form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From spangle + -ing.

Etymology 2

From spangle + -ing.

Etymology 3

From spangle + -ing.

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