snood
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The man, who was wearing a hood, snood or scarf and gloves and carrying a shopping bag, then travelled to Lurgan by bus.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2023
He found that snood length was the primary factor that explained which male a female chose as a mate.
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
The result of a 10-year project with biotech firm Virustatic, the snood has now been hurried into production.
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
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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
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
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
The brown twine had tied to it long lines of horse-hair snoods with sharp white hooks lashed on by slips of waxed thread.
From The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman
Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I never saw a fairy with snooded or tied up hair.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
She stood up and smoothly snooded back her hair; she dried her eyes, and then looked cautiously out of the window.
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
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
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
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
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