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Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

• Embroidery
  Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
• BEADHOUSEBEDEHOUSE
  An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
• BEADSMANBEDESMAN
  A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
• BEADSWOMANBEDESWOMAN
  Fem. of Beadsman.
• Beadleship
  The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
• Bead proof
  Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
• Beadswoman
  Alt. of Bedeswoman

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