spangling

English

Etymology

From spangle +‎ -ing.

Adjective

spangling (comparative more spangling, superlative most spangling)

1. That spangles; glittering, sparkling.
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 220:

     It was a crumbling heap, whose portal dark / With blooming ivy trails was overgrown; / Upon whose floor the spangling sands were strown, / And rarest sea-shells, which the eternal flood, / Slave to the mother of the months, had thrown / Within the walls of that gray tower, […]

Noun

spangling (plural spanglings)

1. A sparkling metallic ornamentation.
2. gerund of spangle: the act of fixing spangles or sparkling objects to something.

Verb

spangling

1. present participle and gerund of spangle