Definition of "spangle" []

• A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration. (noun)
• A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight. (noun)
• To adorn or cause to sparkle by covering with or as if with spangles: Lights spangled the night skyline. (verb-transitive)
• To sparkle in the manner of spangles. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Copper Beeches and Aspens spangle goldenly against the steel-blue sky."
• "The beautifully-lit Beliebers were the real stars of Bieber's show, but Katy Perry makes you actually believe in the ridiculous transformative spangle of pop music all over again."
• "Readers have taken me to task since my last Country Diary on the pools that spangle the high ridges like glittering sequins."