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Bespangled

Definition: Bespangled

Bespangled

Adjective

1. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bespangled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

 

Synonyms: Bespangled

Synonyms: beaded (adj), beady (adj), bejeweled (adj), bejewelled (adj), gemmed (adj), jeweled (adj), jewelled (adj), sequined (adj), spangled (adj), spangly (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bespangled

Etymologies containing "bespangled": Bespangle. (references)

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Expression: Bespangled

Expression using "bespangled": beaded beady bejeweled bejewelled bespangled gemmed jeweled jewelled sequined spangled spangly. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Bespangled

Misspellings

"Bespangled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bispangle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bespangled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-l-n-p-s"

-1 letter: spendable.

-2 letters: deplanes, sendable, spangled.

-3 letters: angeled, baleens, bangles, beadles, beagles, bedpans, beglads, beleaps, blendes, dangles, deplane, elapsed, enabled, enables, glandes, gleaned, lagends, legends, paneled, pelages, pleased, pledges, sepaled, slanged, sneaped, spangle, speaned, spelean.

-4 letters: abeles, agenes, aneled, aneles, angels, angled, angles, asleep, badges, bagels, baleen, banged, bangle, beadle, beagle, beaned, bedels, bedpan, beglad.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-l-n-p-s"
 

+2 letters: speedballing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bespangled


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 73 70 61 6E 67 6C 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...    .--.    .-    -.    --.    .-..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0073 0070 0061 006E 0067 006C 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36718582678073787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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