snood
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.
to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.
Origin of snood
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How to use snood in a sentence
We Are Knitters provides everything they’ll need to execute a simple project, like this comfy snood.
Gifts for the most stressed-out people you know | Rachel Feltman and Amanda Reed | November 22, 2022 | Popular-ScienceShe was walking quickly, pressing forward, wrapped in a fur mantle, with a Shetland snood drawn round her face.
The Late Miss Hollingford | Rosa MulhollandHer long tresses bound only by the pale blue snood of the Scottish maiden, waved around her.
Baron Bruno | Louisa MorganTo each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end.
A Yacht Voyage Round England | W.H.G. KingstonIn less than an hour the boy caught a two-pounder having in its jaws the identical snood which the father had lost.
Days in the Open | Lathan A. Crandall
A young lady in a long dress, wearing mittens, on her head the snood of a Russian maiden.
The Green Book | Mr Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for snood
/ (snuːd) /
a pouchlike hat, often of net, loosely holding a woman's hair at the back
a headband, esp one formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland
vet science a long fleshy appendage that hangs over the upper beak of turkeys
(tr) to hold (the hair) in a snood
Origin of snood
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