• IPA: /ˈspæŋ.ɡəl/

spangle (plural spangles)

1. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
2. Any small sparkling object.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, “Of and to the Queene”, lines 35--38:

     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.

3. The butterfly, Papilio demoleus, family Papilionidae, of Asia.
4. (obsolete, slang) Money.

• German: Flitter, Glanzplättchen, Paillette, Flitterblättchen
• Italian: lustrino, paillette
• Spanish: lentejuela

spangle (spangles, present participle spangling; past and past participle spangled)

1. (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
2. (transitive) To fix spangles to; to adorn with stars
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene v]:

     What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?

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