1. A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration. 2. A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight.
VERB:
Inflected forms: span·gled, span·gling, span·gles
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To adorn or cause to sparkle by covering with or as if with spangles: Lights spangled the night skyline.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To sparkle in the manner of spangles.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English spangel, diminutive of spange, from Middle Dutch, clasp. See (s)pen- in Appendix I.
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