Definition of "sparling" [spar•ling]

• The common European smelt (Osperus eperlanus). (noun)
• A young or immature herring. (noun)

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• "I hear John Green looks fabulous in sparling silver tulle skirts though."
• "The reluctance of Marthe Hardelot to leave her home when the Germans invade is conveyed not in terms of panic but in terms of possessions: "her linen cupboard, the fine sheets from Flanders, embroidered by nuns in Bruges, her kitchenware—copper pans, candlesticks, sparling bowls—and the photos of Aunt Adèle at her First Communion, and Uncle Jules ten months old, naked on a pillow.""
• "But there is yet another sparling gift for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan awaiting at Bangkok."