snood

IPA: snˈud

noun

  • A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
  • A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
  • The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
  • A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
  • A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

verb

  • To keep the hair in place with a snood.
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Examples of "snood" in Sentences

  • Give me a nice medieval snood any day...
  • The snood hangs over from on top of the beak.
  • The flesh above the beak is NOT a snood, it is comb.
  • Snood requires considerable hand eye coordination and strategy.
  • The hair covering may be a scarf, hat, snood, or a wig sheitel .
  • A snood is similar but a looser fit and with a much coarser mesh.
  • A snood is a type of headgear, historically worn by women over their long hair.
  • To each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end.
  • Stennie, I like the "snood" line, too, and the "Sisters" number as performed by both the boys and the girls.
  • A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls.
  • Another popular style of the 30s and 40s was the snood, which is sort of like a hammock for your hair worn at the back of your neck.

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