ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Adorned or covered with or as with spangles.
1584. Lodge, Alarum (Shaks. Soc.), 52. Spangled hobbie horses are for children.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., III. iv. Here stalkes me by a proud, and spangled sir.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, III. v. 58. Diuers places where the waters had … left a tinctured spangled skurfe.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 330. No Green Meadows or spangled Fields are here expected.
1743. Francis, trans. Hor., Epodes, xvii. 54. Or shall I … Teach Thee, a golden Star, to rise, And deathless walk the spangled Skies?
1769. Sir W. Jones, Palace Fortune, Poems (1777), 9. Straight the gay birds display’d their spangled train.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 280. A majestic plume towered from an old spangled black bonnet.
1886. W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 52. In the fantastic, spangled costume of the Wallachian maidens.
fig. 1695. J. Edwards, Perfect. Script., 23. Epictetus and Seneca with all their spangled sayings.
2. Speckled.
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., IV. i. On his siluer crest, A snowy Feather spangled white he beares.
1600. Knaresb. Wills (Surtees), I. 223. One spangled cowe with a broken horne.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Red, A peculiarly coloured china ware of a spangled red.
1849. Browne, Amer. Poultry Yard (1855), 58. The spangled Hamburghs may be comprised under two varieties.
1859. [see SPANGLING vbl. sb.].
1868. Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. 244. Spangled feathers have a dark mark, properly crescent-shaped, on their tips; whilst pencilled feathers have several transverse bars.
