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asparkle en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + sparkle.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Sparkling.
   • […] the body of each high seat was a single jewel of monstrous size: the left-hand seat a black opal, asparkle with steel-blue fire, the next a fire-opal, as it were a burning coal, the third seat an alexandrite, purple like wine by night but deep sea-green by day. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 2:
   • […] I kept hoping for the film to spin back to the moment where my aunt materialized asparkle with the gems previously the property of the rabbi's late wife. 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 5, in The Plot Against America, London: Jonathan Cape, page 201:
   • 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl, Fairfield, IA: 1st World Library, 2004, Chapter 10, p. 86, And when the sun shone against the walls of her palace it was filled with a lovely lavender light, and when the moon shone it was all asparkle with silver.
   • Out on the deck, with the breeze blowing and the whole sea a-sparkle with light and movement, she felt little sickness at all; 1995, Philip Pullman, “Northern Lights”, in The Golden Compass, London: Scholastic, published 1998, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 163:

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