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Snood

noun

An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head.

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"Snood" Quotes from Famous Books

... slender thing, In a snood of virgin light, She seemed all shy on venturing Into the ...

— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott

... the covers, the captain saw that she had left off the black snood and tied her hair with a band of rose-colored ribbon. Her lips were ruddy and her eyes alight: once or twice she ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various

... the broom, Down amang the broom, my dearie, The lassie lost a silken snood, That cost her mony a blirt and bleary. Braw, braw lads of Galla Water; O braw lads of Galla-Water: I'll kilt my coats aboon my knee, And follow my love thro' ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... get another, either. Says he was stung on the first one, and he's going to get his money back before he goes in any deeper. It goes down about fifty cents a year in price, and last year Jim Reebe almost bought it at four dollars and seventy-five cents for Selma Snood. We have hopes of him this year—unless he and Selma quarrel or get married, either of which ...

— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

Words linked to "Snood" : meshing, mesh, meshwork, net, network