lovebead

noun

lovebead

noun

Etymology From love + bead.

1

A bead made from a dyed seed pod, strung in a long beaded necklace and worn by men or women as part of countercultural fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.

The vast Victorian lobby contained a pullulating mass of characters, mainly young, dressed in the assorted output of the Carnaby Streets, the sari sweatshops, the micro-mini makers and the lovebead stringers of the world.1971, Social Research - Volume 38, page 704:
But even in my lovebead days I would have drawn the line at having sex in a public park.2013, Catherine Todd, Secret Lives of Second Wives, →ISBN:

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Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.2015, Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson, Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters And the Power of Three, →ISBN:

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