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snood

[snood] / snud /




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The attacker said he didn't care but the teenager then pulled down the snood to reveal his father and asked: "What are you doing?"

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2023

A tom sporting a long red snood draws the attention of hens like flies to honey — although, to their credit, the hens manage to be coy about it.

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

According to inventor Paul Hope, the snood is more breathable and flexible than a conventional mask, meaning patients can also wear them.

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

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

They’re picky about partners and know what they want: males with long 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 line 50 fathoms long has bent to it snoods with hooks attached, 16 in. apart.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To him there Came swift a spirit in shape of virgin slim, With snooded hair and kirtle belted trim, Short to the knee; and in her face the gale Had blown bright sanguine colour.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

A goodly number of bareheaded sonsie lasses, wrapped in the inevitable shawl; rather good-looking, healthy and rosy-cheeked were they, with their hair snooded back, and gathered into braids sleek and shining.

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

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

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

With that I put it away in the trunk, and changed the subject by turning my attention to snooding a score or two of fish hooks for conger fishing.

From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

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

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

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

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


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