Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture Beaded molding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ornamental work formed of beads by embroidering, crocheting, etc.
- noun In joinery, beading (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Ornamental work in beads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Decorative work involvingbeads .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ornamentation with beads
- noun a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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Examples
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Gibson's "beadwork" is a striking gesture that's also subtle in its implications: Our "superficial decoration," it may say, can trump your "high-art abstraction."
New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power Blake Gopnik 2010
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Few people would argue that Indian beadwork is not authentic simply because it is made of imported European trade goods.
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Few people would argue that Indian beadwork is not authentic simply because it is made of imported European trade goods.
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Few people would argue that Indian beadwork is not authentic simply because it is made of imported European trade goods.
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Be it the bold and intricate beadwork from the Maasai Mara or the handcrafted sea glass beads from Ghana's Cape Coast, when such jewelry is unfailingly noticed, I quickly direct the conversation to the independent African businesswomen who have made and sold me these pieces over the past years.
Kate Otto: My Bracelet Makes a Businesswoman (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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Be it the bold and intricate beadwork from the Maasai Mara or the handcrafted sea glass beads from Ghana's Cape Coast, when such jewelry is unfailingly noticed, I quickly direct the conversation to the independent African businesswomen who have made and sold me these pieces over the past years.
Kate Otto: My Bracelet Makes a Businesswoman (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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Few people would argue that Indian beadwork is not authentic simply because it is made of imported European trade goods.
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Be it the bold and intricate beadwork from the Maasai Mara or the handcrafted sea glass beads from Ghana's Cape Coast, when such jewelry is unfailingly noticed, I quickly direct the conversation to the independent African businesswomen who have made and sold me these pieces over the past years.
Kate Otto: My Bracelet Makes a Businesswoman (VIDEO) Kate Otto 2010
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The soldiers in many of the hospitals are doing flat beadwork, which is ingenious and pretty; but nothing compares with these necklaces of Madame Balli, and some of the best dressed American women in Paris are wearing them.
The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Some of the belles, and indeed some of the women whose beauty is a thing of the past, wear a breastplate of beadwork, which is further decorated with a fringe of reindeer teeth that has a most ghastly effect -- they look so much like human teeth.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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