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
“Why the snood and not all the other ornaments on males?”
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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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
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
The appearance of flourishes such as steam-punk goggles and snoods added to the sense of disorientation.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2020
There are scarves and snoods to conceal neck-vein bulges when attempting a major bluff.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2018
The wall paper blossomed with garlands of red roses, tied with snoods of red ribbons.
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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See on 114 above; as also for snooded.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
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
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
Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
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
You see we want strong lines and snooding out here.”
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
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