spangly
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- Resembling spangles; having the glittering effect produced by many bright points. Bursts of spangly light. Keats, Endymion, i.
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- She thanked Agent Thwarp, and, after he left, watched men on stage dance in spangly underwear to non-Irish music, and tried to figure out what to do. — Asimov's Science Fiction
- Drive-in restaurants were popping up on Hoover and Vermont, spangly modern jobs where you could eat in your car and listen to music on speakers attached to the window posts. — White Jazz
- Roselle was dressed to kill in a revealing spangly dress she had bought that afternoon in Regent Street. — two women
- Looking at him, head inclined towards the little woman in the red spangly dress, the way he talked to her, handsome face earnest, Susan realised what all the dressing up and grooming himself was for. had having his usual leg over, a was in love. lahe was sitting at home worrying herself sick, he spending all his money on that little woman beautiful clothes. — two women
- "If any man knew, I would see to it that he died before an hour had passed. — The Horse and His Boy
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- from spangle + -y.