Definition of "snood"

snood

/snuːd/

noun
plural snoods
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.
  Quotations
  “Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
  1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Frida, or, The Lover’s Leap, A Legend of the West Country, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 1
2. A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
  Quotations
  And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
  1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, (please specify the stanza number)
  serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
  2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264
3. The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
  Quotations
  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
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.
verb
third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded
1. To keep the hair in place with a snood.
  Quotations
  Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree,
  1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)

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