snood

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To each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end.

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  1. noun A small netlike cap worn by women to keep the hair in place.
  2. noun A headband or fillet.
  3. noun A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak.

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

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  1. Also dial. (in sense 2) sneed; from Middle English snod, from Anglo-Saxon snōd, a fillet, snood, = Icelandic snūthr, a twist, twirl, = Swedish snod, snodd, sno, a twist, twine; cf. Icelandic snūa, turn, twist, = Swedish sno = Danish sno, twist, twine. Cf. snare, n.
  2. from snood, n.
 

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