To each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end. noun an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair pins or ties at the back of the headĪnother popular style of the 30s and 40s was the snood, which is sort of like a hammock for your hair worn at the back of your neck.Ī piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls.verb To keep the hair in place with a snood.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm neckwarmer.noun A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line a snell.noun The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.noun A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.noun A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.noun A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook a snell a leader.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. To tie, fasten, or affix, as an anglers' hook when the end of the line or gut-loop is seized on to the shank of the hook.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To bind up with a snood, as a maiden's hair.The snoods are 6 feet long, and placed at intervals of 12 feet. noun One of the short lines of a bultow to which the hooks are attached: also called by fishermen ganging.noun In angling, a hair-line, gut, or silk cord by which a fish-hook is fastened to the line a snell a leader or trace Also sneed.It was held to be emblematic of maidenhood or virginity. noun A fillet formerly worn by young women in Scotland to confine the hair.transitive verb To hold (the hair) in place with a snood.noun A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak.

noun A bag typically made of net fabric that is worn at the back of the head to keep a woman's hair in place.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Hair snood