snood
(noun) an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman’s hair; pins or ties at the back of the head
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snood (plural snoods)
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.
A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
Hypernym: hairnet
Hyponym: shpitzel
The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
Coordinate terms: caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle
A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc, by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
snood (third-person singular simple present snoods, present participle snooding, simple past and past participle snooded)
To keep the hair in place with a snood.
• donos, doons
Source: Wiktionary
Snood, n. Etym: [AS. sn. Cf. Snare.]
1. The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. [Scot.] And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. Sir W. Scott.
2. A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
Snood, v. t.
Definition: To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
