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seed-pearl|ˈsiːdpɜːl|
[f. seed n.]
A minute pearl having the appearance of a seed, usually drilled and fastened to some material to be worn as an ornament. a. collect. sing.
1553Inv. Ch. Goods York, etc. (Surtees) 168 Garnished with..an edge of smale seede pearle sett round abowte the same. 1573–4New Yrs. Gifts in Nichols Progr. Eliz. (1823) I. 380 Item, a fayre gyrdle of pomaunder and seede perle garnets and pomaunders. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia v. 198 Some seed Pearle they got. 1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 Bracelets of braided Hair, Pomander, and Seed-Pearl. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia iv. (1881) 105 A golden net, With tassels of seed-pearl and silken strings.
b. pl.
1598Florio, Perlette, little, small, seede pearles. 1619tr. Mexia's Treas. Anc. & Mod. Times II. 976/2 Some [pearls] are found to be so little, that they can not bee drilled by any meanes; and therefore they call them Seede-pearles. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 132 Take oriental seed-pearls; reduce them into a fine powder. 1877Streeter Prec. Stones 235 According to their size they [Pearls] receive certain names;..small, Piece Pearls; smaller, Seed Pearls; smallest, Dust Pearls. |