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love bead

love bead is the alternative form of lovebead.

Meaning of lovebead

Noun

lovebead (plural lovebeads)

  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

Forms of love bead

plurallove beads

Questions about love bead

What is love bead the alternative form of?
Love bead is the alternative form of lovebead.

Words near love bead in the dictionary

  1. love affairs
  2. love apple
  3. love apples
  4. love at first sight
  5. love away
  6. love bead
  7. love beads
  8. love bird
  9. love birds
  10. love bite
  11. love bites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: love bead (page history and authors); lovebead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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