bespangle
To cover something with spangles.
Verb
- To cover something with spangles.
- Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew...
- He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings. - 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English spangle English bespangle From be- + spangle.