Synonyms for beads
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : beed |
| Phonetic Transcription : bid |
Définition of beads
Origin :- 1570s, "to adorn with beads," from bead (n.). Meaning "to string like beads" is from 1883. Related: Beaded; beading.
- noun string of small, often round, objects
- The perspiration stood in beads on the boy's sallow forehead; but he said nothing.
- Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
- Magua is a red-skin; he wants not the beads of the pale faces.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- I bathe my face and tell my beads with my whole soul, and that is all.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- There were some quite white, and others all black, according to the colour of the beads.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- For hours the beads of his Rosary would glide between his fingers.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- Beads of perspiration covered her face, and her hands were burning.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- One wicked baby sits by herself and strings her beads on her curls.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- The night was cold, but the sweat stood on his brow in beads.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- I awoke from that dream with beads of perspiration on my forehead.
- Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
- The perspiration was standing in beads on every inch of Robbie's body.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
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