snood

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noun
  1. the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.

  2. a headband for the hair.

  1. a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.

  2. the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

verb (used with object)
  1. to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.

Origin of snood

1
before 900; Middle English: fillet, ribbon; Old English snōd

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

    The Late Miss Hollingford | Rosa Mulholland
  • Her long tresses bound only by the pale blue snood of the Scottish maiden, waved around her.

    Baron Bruno | Louisa Morgan
  • 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.

    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

snood

/ (snuːd) /


noun
  1. a pouchlike hat, often of net, loosely holding a woman's hair at the back

  2. a headband, esp one formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland

  1. vet science a long fleshy appendage that hangs over the upper beak of turkeys

verb
  1. (tr) to hold (the hair) in a snood

Origin of snood

1
Old English snōd; of obscure origin

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