Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
3. The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
4. A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
5. A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
6. To keep the hair in place with a snood.

Example Sentences

“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”

And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.

serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]

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.

Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair

Word Forms

• snoods
• snod
• sneed
• snooding
• snooded

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Use snood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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