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beadworking

beadworking noun: the activity of making beadwork.

Noun

beadworking (uncountable)

  1. The activity of making beadwork.
    • In the most common beadworking technique, the beads were strung on a thread and laid along the surface to which they were attached.1979, David Goodman Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study, volume 9, University of Regina Press, page 101
    • Beadworking may well be one of modern humans’ earliest surviving crafts.2017 September 7, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past, Smithsonian Institution, page 37

Origin of beadworking

From beadwork + -ing.

Questions about beadworking

What does beadworking mean?
Beadworking means the activity of making beadwork.
What part of speech is beadworking?
Beadworking is a noun.

Words near beadworking in the dictionary

  1. beadswoman
  2. beadswomen
  3. beadwork
  4. beadworker
  5. beadworkers
  6. beadworking
  7. beadworks
  8. beady
  9. beady eye
  10. beady eyes
  11. beady-eyed

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