Spangle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.

   “The other Knight was all in milke white, his attiring els, all cutte in starres, which made of cloath of silver, and silver spangles, each way seemed to cast many aspects.”

2. isim Any small sparkling object.

   “There they doe finde that godly aged Sire, / VVith ſnowy lockes adowne his ſhoulders ſhed, / As hoary froſt with ſpangles doth attire / The moſſy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.”

3. isim A shiny particle of a mineral.
4. isim A star.

   “Thus in a Starry night fond children cry / For the rich ſpangles that adorn the Sky; / Which though they ſhine for ever fixed there, / With light and influence relieve us here.”

5. isim A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.

   “Mariner, mariner, furl your sails, / For here are the blissful downs and dales, / And merrily, merrily carol the gales, / And the spangle dances in bight and bay, / And the rainbow forms and flies on the land / Over the islands free; […]”

6. isim A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.

   “In the male [mille fleur booted bantam] the general plumage color is red with the tip of each feather ending in a V-shaped, white spangle which is separated from the red portion of the feather by a black bar. […] The wing bows are also red, tipped with white spangles.”

7. isim Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.

   “The female is unusually beautiful with grayish-brown wings hemmed by velvet black, while the male, resembling the black-winged Long-tail Spangle (Onaga-ageha) [Papilio macilentus], has unique vermillion marks on the body, and gives out a unique fragrance from which comes its Japanese name.”

8. fiil To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.

   “What ſtars do ſpangle heauen with ſuch beautie, / As thoſe two eyes become that heauenly face?”

9. fiil To adorn or decorate (something).

   “It seems it is in fashion with you to sugar your papers with Carnation phrases, and spangle your speeches with new quodled words.”

10. fiil To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
11. özel isim A surname.