[snood] 
| 1. | the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England. |
| 2. | a headband for the hair. |
| 3. | a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair. |
| 4. | the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey. |
| 5. | to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood. |
| snood (snōōd) n.
To hold (the hair) in place with a snood. [Middle English snod, headband, from Old English snōd; see (s)nē- in Indo-European roots.] |
snood
either of two types of hair ornament worn by women. The Scottish snood was a narrow circlet or ribbon fastened around the head and worn primarily by unmarried women, as a sign of chastity. During the Victorian era, hairnets worn for decoration were called snoods, and this term came to mean a netlike hat or part of a hat that caught the hair in the back. In the 1930s the name was given to a netlike bag worn at the back of a woman's head to hold the hair. During World War II snoods were immensely popular in factories, where they were worn to keep hair from being caught in machinery.
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