snood

snood  (snd)

n.

1. A small netlike cap worn by women to keep the hair in place.

2. A headband or fillet.

3. 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 snd; see (s)n- in Indo-European roots.]

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snood

Noun

a pouchlike hat loosely holding a woman's hair at the back [Old English snōd]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

snood - an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head meshwork, meshing, network, mesh, net - an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals