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Definition of 'snood'English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)
Noun
( en-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.
* Sir Walter Scott
- 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.
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.
Coordinate terms
* (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle
Hypernyms
* (hairnet) hairnet
Hyponyms
* (hairnet) shpitzel
Verb
( en-verb)
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,
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