love beads

A form of love bead

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of love bead
  2. alternativeAlternative form of lovebeads.

    Junie looked like a throwback to the era of flower power and love beads, but she had a complicated history that had made her neither naive nor weak.

    2015, Jonathan Maberry, Predator One: A Joe Ledger Novel, →ISBN, page 250
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    Yet for a significant portion of the country, long-haired men wearing love beads, authority-snubbing youth, mouthy women and increasingly public gay and lesbian alliances portended a future they wanted no part of.

    2015, Eleanor J. Bader, Patricia Baird-Windle, Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism, →ISBN

    They generally weren't wearing love beads and dropping acid like the crowds in San Francisco, but they had grown up going to shows dating back to the beatnik coffee shops and the jazz clubs.

    2015, Marky Ramone, Richard Herschlag, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone, →ISBN, page 33
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APA

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Chicago

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