| 释义 |
spangled, ppl. a.|ˈspæŋg(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Adorned or covered with or as with spangles.
1584Lodge Alarum (Shaks. Soc.) 52 Spangled hobbie horses are for children. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. iv, Here stalkes me by a proud, and spangled sir. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. v. 58 Diuers places where the waters had..left a tinctured spangled skurfe. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 330 No Green Meadows or spangled Fields are here expected. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Epodes xvii. 54 Or shall I..Teach Thee, a golden Star, to rise, And deathless walk the spangled Skies? 1769Sir W. Jones Palace Fortune Poems (1777) 9 Straight the gay birds display'd their spangled train. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 280 A majestic plume towered from an old spangled black bonnet. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 52 In the fantastic, spangled costume of the Wallachian maidens.
fig.1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 23 Epictetus and Seneca with all their spangled sayings. 1920E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 13 Flickered down the street together In the spangled weather. 1943L. B. Lyon Evening in Stepney 17 By spangled weirs we pass the gas-works. 1977[see rhinestone b].
2. Speckled.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. iv. i, On his siluer crest, A snowy Feather spangled white he beares. 1600Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 223 One spangled cowe with a broken horne. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Red, A peculiarly coloured china ware of a spangled red. 1849Browne Amer. Poultry Yard (1855) 58 The spangled Hamburghs may be comprised under two varieties. 1859[see spangling vbl. n.]. 1868Darwin Anim. & Pl. I. 244 Spangled feathers have a dark mark, properly crescent-shaped, on their tips; whilst pencilled feathers have several transverse bars. |