snood
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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
“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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"It was jumpers, blankets, one of those big snoods, or just getting up and moving around."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
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
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
A Manx or Erse term for a strong fishing-line made of black hair snoods.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
She wore a dark brown dress and a black silk apron, and had on a cap with thick frilled borders, under which her grey hair was neatly snooded away.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
To him there Came swift a spirit in shape of virgin slim, With snooded hair and kirtle belted trim, Short to the knee; and in her face the gale Had blown bright sanguine colour.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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
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
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
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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