spangling

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US/ˈspæŋɡ(ə)lɪŋ/

adjective

That spangles; glittering, sparkling.

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Meanings

adjectivespangling (comparative more spangling, superlative most spangling)

comparative more spangling · superlative most spangling

  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, […]

    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
nounspangling (plural spanglings)

plural spanglings

  1. A sparkling metallic ornamentation.
  2. gerundgerund of spangle: the act of fixing spangles or sparkling objects to something.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of spangle

Origin

From spangle + -ing.

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APA

spangling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spangling

MLA

“spangling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spangling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spangling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spangling.

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