The word "spangle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb or a noun. For example: "She wore a dress adorned with sparkling spangles".
"Pay attention, honey," her mother said, because she was about to sew a spangle fish on backward to the sea-blue one-piece, zip-up-the-back jumpsuit.
But, sure enough, phosphorescent dots spangle the domed roof of the grotto.
She also lived with her, cooked her dinner, traveled with her to every remote concert date, telephoned everyone she knew and got them to telephone everyone they knew to cancel their bridge parties and buy tickets to the shows, and sewed every ruffle and button and spangle on Agnes's costumes.
Although the plot periodically wanders, the prose is arresting: a river is a "bold curl," motes "spangle and gust," and the big yellow moon molders and oozes, "blighted and bad and full," a single "sightless eye.
A must for any devoted spangle enthusiast.
Mr. Crump has a full, appealingly wooden sound on his instrument, and Rosetta Trio neatly frames that sound, unobscured by the spangle and hum of cymbals.
There were the obvious, and obliging, exhibitionists — the spangle-clad drag queens, the tattooed gym rats with their oiled chests, the Russian beanpoles in their dental-floss bikinis and stacked heels, trailing stout, balding father figures in their wake.
Dionysus (Jonathan Groff), for his part, looks terrific in his night-life get-up: a leather jacket and spangle-dusted jeans.
The most embarrassing is a dream sequence in which a male ballet troupe, holding aloft a spangle-corseted young woman, caper towards the audience in white top hats, skimpy satin trunks and coats flapping open to flash bare chests.
If there's a reciprocal series about American spies living in Moscow, they can star-spangle up the US in The Russians … Actually, that's unlikely – I don't think American spy families have ever lived as Muscovites in Moscow, have they?
Liz Earle's Eye Pencil in Golden Bronze, £11, and Zoeva's Rose Golden Palette, £18 (bargainous for 10 eyeshadows) are everyday neutrals that offer subtle gilding for the spangle-averse.
