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snood

[snood] / snud /




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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

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

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

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

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

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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