SPANGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spangled mean? 

• SPANGLED (adjective)
  The adjective SPANGLED has 1 sense:

1. covered with beads or jewels or sequins

  Familiarity information: SPANGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with beads or jewels or sequins

Synonyms:

beady; gemmed; jeweled; jewelled; sequined; spangled; spangly

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

Alleyne sat down willingly as directed with two great bundles on either side of him which contained the strollers' dresses—doublets of flame-colored silk and girdles of leather, spangled with brass and tin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A high dais at the further end was roofed in by a broad canopy of scarlet velvet spangled with silver fleurs-de-lis, and supported at either corner by silver rods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The most, however, were young and dandy archers, with fresh English faces, their beards combed out, their hair curling from under their close steel hufkens, with gold or jewelled earrings gleaming in their ears, while their gold-spangled baldrics, their silken belts, and the chains which many of them wore round their thick brown necks, all spoke of the brave times which they had had as free companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)