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snood

[ snood ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
a headband for the hair.
a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.
the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

snood

/ snuːd /

Origin of snood¹

before 900; Middle English: fillet, ribbon; Old English snōd

Origin of snood¹

Old English snōd; of obscure origin

We Are Knitters provides everything they’ll need to execute a simple project, like this comfy snood.

She was walking quickly, pressing forward, wrapped in a fur mantle, with a Shetland snood drawn round her face.

Her long tresses bound only by the pale blue snood of the Scottish maiden, waved around her.

To each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end.

In less than an hour the boy caught a two-pounder having in its jaws the identical snood which the father had lost.

A young lady in a long dress, wearing mittens, on her head the snood of a Russian maiden.

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