Mardi Gras beads
New Orleans necklaces
Mardi Gras beads are strings of colorful plastic beads thrown from floats or balconies during Mardi Gras celebrations, especially in New Orleans.
Traditionally earned by revelers who flash their bodies at throwers, though they're also tossed freely into crowds.
The beads have little value but accumulate as souvenirs: She came home with pounds of Mardi Gras beads around her neck.
- necklacesOrnaments encircling the throat
- throwsPropels through air
- purpleHue between crimson and azure
- goldElement seventy-nine
- greenColor of vegetation
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