beaded, ppl. a.
(ˈbiːdɪd)
[f. bead + -ed.]
1. a. Worked or ornamented with beads.
| 1577 Holinshed Chron. III. 858 A cloake of broched satin..beded from the shoulder to the wast. 1840 Hood Up Rhine 222 The other cap is also embroidered or beaded. |
b. Having bead-like protuberances upon the edge.
| 1697 Lond. Gaz. No. 3298/4 One Beaded Salver without Arms. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 27 Sisymbrium Trio..London Rocket..valves beaded. 1870 Tyndall Heat viii. App. 261 A beaded line of great beauty was observed. |
c. Furnished with or wearing beads.
| 1805 Southey Madoc in Azt. xxi. Wks. V. 348 His neck with hearts beaded. 1885 Pall Mall G. 13 July 6/2 Monks..cowled, sandalled, beaded, and picturesque. |
d. Applied to a projection screen (see quot. 1959).
| 1936 Amat. Cine World Mar. 552/2 Beaded screens are..brighter than white and some makes are brighter than silver. 1938 G. H. Sewell Amat. Film-Making vi. 60 There are three types of screen available,..white..silver..beaded. 1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 127/2 Beaded screen, a beaded projection screen is surfaced with small glass beads and a brilliant image is obtained that is strongly directional towards the projector. |
2. a. Formed into or like beads.
| 1597 Shakes. Lover's Compl. vi, A thousand fauours from a maund she drew, Of amber christall and of bedded Iet. 1820 Keats Ode Nightingale 17 With beaded bubbles winking at the brim. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton ii. 15 Portraits..in which the women have all beaded black eyes. |
b. Strung out like beads.
| 1937 Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxii. 388 Thus a series of fans or deltas may be strung along the ‘feeding esker’, like beads on a string. To such a form the term ‘beaded esker’ is applied. 1956 J. C. Swayne Gloss. Geogr. Terms 22 Beaded lakes, strings of long, narrow lakes between sand dunes. |
3. Covered with bubbles.
| 1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 533/2 Beakers of beaded ale. |
4. a. Arch. Having a bead-moulding.
b. Applied to a thickened, rounded rim, = bead rim (see bead n. 8).
| 1917 Bulleid & Gray Glastonbury Lake Village II. xvi. 519 Bowls with beaded rims, a type of pottery belonging to the latter part of the La Tène III period. |
5. beaded-edge, defining a kind of pneumatic tyre with bead or thickened edge that fits into the turned-over rim of the wheel; beaded lightning, bead lightning (see bead n. 8).
| 1902 Windsor Mag. May (Advt.), Wired or beaded edges optional. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 9/1 The Bartlett beaded-edge—or, as it is more generally known, the Clincher—tyre. |
| 1889 Morning Post 29 June 5/7 Photographs of lightning..arranged..according to their form—stream,..beaded..lightning. |