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beading

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes
bead‧ing [uncountable]
1 long thin pieces of wood or stone that are used as a decoration on the edges of walls, furniture etc
2DCC a lot of beads sewn close together on clothes, leather etc as decoration
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