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star-spangled, ppl. a.
1. Spangled with stars.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 1172 Above the Heavn's Star-spangled Canopy. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies iii. ix. [x.] 21 He who rules the worlds starre-spangled towers. 1647C. Harvey Schola Cordis xxxiii. 12 Thy piercing eye Whose light outvieth the star-spangled skie. 1777Potter æschylus, Agamem. 234 Heaven's star-spangled plain. 1814F. S. Key (title of song) The Star-spangled Banner. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign vi, And then you take a last look at the glorious star-spangled ceiling overhead.
2. star-spangled banner.
a. The national flag of the United States of America. Also fig. Cf. stars and stripes s.v. star n.1 6 b.
1814F. S. Key in Baltimore Patriot 20 Sept. 2/1 The star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave. 1843Dickens Mart. Chuz. (1844) xxi. 261, I thank you, sir, in the name of the star-spangled banner of the Great United States. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xlix. 515 A robe..that was a very star-spangled banner of curved and sinuous bars of black and white. 1887― Let. 18 Dec. (1917) II. 480 It had bought them of the star spangled banner Masterthief. 1949Chicago Daily News 15 Dec. 3 Was the Star-Spangled Banner made in a brewery?
b. With capital initials: the name of the U.S. national anthem.
1814[see sense 1]. 1843Quincy (Illinois) Herald 3 Mar. 1/1 It is a most beautiful history of that national ballad, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’. 1899Kipling From Sea to Sea ii. xxv. 15 When we had chanted ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ not more than eight times, we adjourned. 1936Nation 10 Oct. 419/2 As the band played the Star Spangled Banner at the end,..the President stood erect. 1977G. Markstein Chance Awakening xliii. 128 He was on his feet..with 17,000 other people in the stadium as the Star Spangled Banner thundered out of the loudspeakers. |