bespangle
/bɪˈspaŋɡ(ə)l
/verb [with object] literary
Cover or adorn with something that glitters or sparkles: a small cell all bejewelled and bespangled with flashy ornamentation...
- Sauntering along, the boy looks up and sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.
- Their handsome foliage, bespangled with silver splodges and spots, sparkles among the winter mire.
- His father develops depression and petit mal seizures, his mother takes up ballroom dancing; one vegetates on a locked ward while the other bespangles taffeta with sequins.
Rhymes
- Roman balance
- Roman baths
- Roman bean
- Roman beet
- Roman blind
- Roman brick
- Roman Britain
- Roman candle
- Roman Catholic
- Roman Catholic Church
- Roman Catholicism
- Roman Catholicity
- romance
- romanceful
- romanceless
- romancelet
- Roman cement
- Roman-cemented
- Roman cementing
- romancer
- Roman chair
- romancingly
- romancise
- romancist
- romancize