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Beadwork

noun

Ornamentation with beads. Synonym: beading.

A beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture. Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading.

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"Beadwork" Quotes from Famous Books

... remember the time you did the beadwork for the head carpenter's wife and when she paid you for it you spent the dollar for liquid rouge? Todd was so mad he wouldn't speak for a ...

— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... and Menard turned to the largest of the three Indians, who wore the brightest blanket, and had a peculiar wampum collar, decorated in mosaic-like beadwork. ...

— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin

... with its wreaths of beadwork and artificial violets, has ever a most depressing appearance. That of Monaco is like any other, we find the usual magnificence, and usual tinsel. Many beautiful trees, shrubs, and flowers, however, relieve the gloom, and ...

— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

Words linked to "Beadwork" : decoration, molding, quirk bead, ornament, bead, ornamentation, bead and quirk, astragal, beading, moulding