snood (redirected from snoods)

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 [snuːd]

n

1. (Clothing & Fashion) a pouchlike hat, often of net, loosely holding a woman's hair at the back

2. (Clothing & Fashion) a headband, esp one formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) Vet science a long fleshy appendage that hangs over the upper beak of turkeys

vb

(Clothing & Fashion) (tr) to hold (the hair) in a snood

[Old English snōd; of obscure origin]

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

Translations

snood [snuːd] N (= band) → cintillo m; (= net) → redecilla f

snood

n → Haarnetz nt