Snood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /snuːd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Snood is a noun meaning A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
Meaning
A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
More Meanings
- 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.
- To keep the hair in place with a snood.
- 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.
Example Sentences
And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair
Word Forms
- snoods
- snod
- snooding
- snooded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fillet, net, bobble, neckband, ropeband, bindle.
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