different between spangle vs paillette

English

Etymology

From Middle English spangel (“a small piece of ornamental metal; a small ornament”); equivalent to spang +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Noun

spangle (plural spangles)

1. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
2. Any small sparkling object.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, “Of and to the Queene”, lines 35--38:

     Thus, in a starry night, fond children cry
     For the rich spangles that adorn the sky,
     Which, though they shine for ever fixed there,
     With light and influence relieve us here.

3. The butterfly, Papilio demoleus, family Papilionidae, of Asia.
4. (obsolete, slang) Money. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

1. (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
2. (transitive) To fix spangles to; bespangle; to adorn with stars

Derived terms

• bespangle
• spangled
• unspangled

Further reading

• spangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pangles, Spangel, legspan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French paillette, from paille (“straw”) + -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæl?j?t/, /pa??j?t/

Noun

paillette (plural paillettes)

1. A sequin or spangle.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 450:

     A plump and energetic chanteuse of some ten summers, incandescently blond, now emerged from a back recess wearing a gown of artificial golden paillettes sewn, not to any underlying fabric but only—precariously—to one another

French

Etymology

From paille +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.j?t/

Noun

paillette f (plural paillettes)

1. sequin

Descendants

• ? English: paillette
• ? German: Paillette
• ? Italian: paillette

Further reading

• “paillette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French paillette.

Noun

paillette f (invariable)

1. sequin

Further reading

• paillette in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana