snooded

snood

 (sno͞od)

n.

1. A bag typically made of net fabric that is worn at the back of the head to keep hair in place.

2. A wide, loose, tubular scarf.

3. A headband or fillet.

4. A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak.

tr.v. snood·ed, snood·ing, snoods

To hold (the hair) in place with a snood.

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[Middle English snod, headband, from Old English snōd; see (s)nē- in Indo-European roots.]

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