snood
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"I have a lucky snood - the face masks people use when they ski - always on my person," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
"It was jumpers, blankets, one of those big snoods, or just getting up and moving around."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
Like snoods, other fleshy structures on a turkey’s face and neck can change color during displays.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
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
"It is only my joke," I stammered; "you have a reputation among the snoods."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
She died, and they snooded her hair and buried her.
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
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 Sidgwick, Frank
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 Rogers, Charles
You see we want strong lines and snooding out here.”
From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.
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 Becke, Louis
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 Becke, Louis
Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.
From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.
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 Staniland, C.J.
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