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[snood] / snud /




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The man, who was wearing a hood, snood or scarf and gloves and carrying a shopping bag, then travelled to Lurgan by bus.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2023

“Why the snood and not all the other ornaments on males?”

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

Normally, turkeys top out around 20 pounds, with fleshy wattles that hang down their necks and another protuberance called a snood hanging over the beak.

From Washington Post Apr. 22, 2022

Good thing the gift shop features those in three styles: Ninja, pleated and the ever-popular snood.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2021

They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg’s in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Dr. Buchholz found that males with longer snoods had fewer coccidia parasites, which don’t harm adults but can sicken or kill chicks, and possess genes that may make them resistant to coccidia.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

Like snoods, other fleshy structures on a turkey’s face and neck can change color during displays.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

There are scarves and snoods to conceal neck-vein bulges when attempting a major bluff.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2018

Gloves and snoods have long been the subject of ridicule in the Premier League, but at least Neil Lennon is laying the foundations to stamp them out of the game.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2014

These "snoods" are about 6 feet long, and have the hooks attached to their free ends.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.

Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pearls about her neck became her mightily, as did the green ribbon, the same shade as her dress, snooded in her hair.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

He did not recognize her at first; it was nearly dark, and her head was snooded in a shawl.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

Over Christine herself had come the same bright change; her still, calm face often dimpled into smiles, her pale-gold hair was snooded with a pretty ribbon, and her dress a little richer.

From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

She stood up and smoothly snooded back her hair; she dried her eyes, and then looked cautiously out of the window.

From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Later on I showed them a 27-stranded American cotton line 100 fathoms long, with a 4-inch hook, curved in the shank, as thick as a pencil, and "eyed" for a twisted wire snooding.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis

Lower a baited hook with a strong wire snooding, and "Yellowskin" will open wide his jaws and swallow it without your feeling the slightest movement of the line.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis

Then anchor me there Beyond the beckoning poplars, where The larch is snooding her flowery hair With wreaths of morning shadow.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Give Josh a shilling to make himself a new gaff, and buy a shilling’s worth of snooding and hooks for yourself.

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.




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