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snood

[snood] / snud /




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He wore a black ski snood and a black baseball cap, masking so much of his face that only his eyes were visible.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

“Why the snood and not all the other ornaments on males?”

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

Good thing the gift shop features those in three styles: Ninja, pleated and the ever-popular snood.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2021

Biochemists at Manchester University have developed a snood with “germ trap” technology.

From The Guardian Mar. 25, 2020

They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg’s in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Like snoods, other fleshy structures on a turkey’s face and neck can change color during displays.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

However, no one has studied whether females scoff at dull feathers the way they do at puny snoods.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

There are scarves and snoods to conceal neck-vein bulges when attempting a major bluff.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2018

Gloves and snoods have long been the subject of ridicule in the Premier League, but at least Neil Lennon is laying the foundations to stamp them out of the game.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2014

A pair o’ gloves he gae to me, And silken snoods he gae me twa; And I will wear them for his sake, The bonnie lad that’s far awa.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore a dark brown dress and a black silk apron, and had on a cap with thick frilled borders, under which her grey hair was neatly snooded away.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Charles W. Wood

See on 114 above; as also for snooded.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

The bride she is winsome and bonnie, Her hair it is snooded sae sleek; And faithful and kind is her Johnnie, Yet fast fa' the tears on her cheek.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

The cattle were brought round in the procession, their heads snooded up for the occasion with green ribbon.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall

You see we want strong lines and snooding out here.”

From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland

Later on I showed them a 27-stranded American cotton line 100 fathoms long, with a 4-inch hook, curved in the shank, as thick as a pencil, and "eyed" for a twisted wire snooding.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke

Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.

From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland

Give Josh a shilling to make himself a new gaff, and buy a shilling’s worth of snooding and hooks for yourself.

From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland

Lower a baited hook with a strong wire snooding, and "Yellowskin" will open wide his jaws and swallow it without your feeling the slightest movement of the line.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke




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