spangle

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Rightly considered, he and his singing were but as a spangle, as some glittering trifle of tinsel, upon the veil still hiding the awful, yet benign, countenance of that tremendous and so surely approaching event.--Let him sing away, then, sing in peace.

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  1. noun A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration.
  2. noun A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight.
  3. transitive verb To adorn or cause to sparkle by covering with or as if with spangles: Lights spangled the night skyline.

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  1. Middle English spangel, diminutive of spange, from Middle Dutch, clasp; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English spangel, spangele, spangyll, a spangle; diminutive of spang.
  2. from spangle, n.
 

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