OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22084

snood

/snuːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cintillo • redecilla
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.
“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
moco de pavo
The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the…
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