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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

“It did surprise me, especially since the snood doesn’t seem to be a very functional thing to choose,” Dr. Buchholz said.

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

"It was jumpers, blankets, one of those big snoods, or just getting up and moving around."

From BBC Mar. 31, 2024

Dr. Buchholz found that males with longer snoods had fewer coccidia parasites, which don’t harm adults but can sicken or kill chicks, and possess genes that may make them resistant to coccidia.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

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

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

A hard, unwaking sleep has overpowered Her limbs, and now the flowered Cool muslin and the ribbon snoods are bootless, The gilded girdles fruitless.

From Laments by Dorothea Prall

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

I never saw a fairy with snooded or tied up hair.

From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The pearls about her neck became her mightily, as did the green ribbon, the same shade as her dress, snooded in her hair.

From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan

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

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

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

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

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




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