snood
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /snuːd/
snood (plural snoods)
- 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.
- 1810, Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake; a Poem, Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, OCLC 6632529 ↗, (please specify the canto number)(please specify the stanza number):
- And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:
- serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
- The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
- 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8
- A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
- 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8
- 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.
- German: Mundschnur
- Russian: поводо́к
snood (snoods, present participle snooding; past and past participle snooded)
- To keep the hair in place with a snood.
- 1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
- Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee,
And she has snooded her yellow hair
A little aboon her bree,
- Janet has kilted her green kirtle
- 1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
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