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.

   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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   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

   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