Definition of "bespangled" [bespangled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bespangle. (verb)

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• "Men are only gregarious vertebrates, domesticated and evolved, and the chances are large that it was because the Greek girl had in her time dealt with wilder masculine beasts of the human sort; for she turned upon the man with hell's tides aflood in her blazing eyes, much as a bespangled lady upon a lion which has suddenly imbibed the pernicious theory that he is a free agent."
• "As they worked, the fog-bank lifted and the black vault of heaven, bespangled with the old familiar stars, rushed into view."
• "This means that people who look up at the night sky bespangled with stars and say “Suddenly I feel so small” have it all wrong."