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snood

[ snood ]

noun

  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.


verb (used with object)

  1. to bind or confine (the hair) with a 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
  3. vet science a long fleshy appendage that hangs over the upper beak of turkeys
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to hold (the hair) in a snood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snood1

before 900; Middle English: fillet, ribbon; Old English snōd
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snood1

Old English snōd; of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

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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