snood
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After it was found 11 days later with false number plates, officers found a partial DNA match - linked to Camp - on a snood that had been left in the driver's seat.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
For turkeys, a male who can afford to sport a killer snood must have had ample resources, which ostensibly reflects the quality of his DNA.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Normally, turkeys top out around 20 pounds, with fleshy wattles that hang down their necks and another protuberance called a snood hanging over the beak.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 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
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
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"It was jumpers, blankets, one of those big snoods, or just getting up and moving around."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
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 were puffer metallic snoods and elbow-length leather opera gloves; enveloping stoles in duchess satin and faux fur, and big blocky platforms.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
There are scarves and snoods to conceal neck-vein bulges when attempting a major bluff.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2018
What plots and counterplots occupied the heads that wore the innocent-looking snoods, and what captives were taken in the many-colored nets that would come off and have to be taken care of.
From On Picket Duty, and Other Tales by Louisa May Alcott
Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she’s awa’ to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
He did not recognize her at first; it was nearly dark, and her head was snooded in a shawl.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
With silk was snooded her hair of gold, The Castle’s won, the Castle’s won!
From The Songs of Ranild by Thomas James Wise
She was small, but very lovely, with something almost Puritanical in her dainty, precise dress and carefully snooded golden hair.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
Then anchor me there Beyond the beckoning poplars, where The larch is snooding her flowery hair With wreaths of morning shadow.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
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
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