To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the fountain.
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Snood
//snuːd//
Synonyms for "snood" (7 found)
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Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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30 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- bigotera noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
- moc noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
Dutch
1 entries- lel noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
Finnish
3 entries- heltta noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
- peruke noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- tukkanauha noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
French
1 entries- pendeloque noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
Galician
1 entries- moco noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
German
4 entries- Haarband noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
- Haarnetz noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
- Kehllappen noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
- Mundschnur noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
Irish
4 entries- drogha noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- foirtéim noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- losna noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- lusna noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
Italian
1 entries- bargiglio noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
Japanese
1 entries- スヌード noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
Korean
1 entries- 스누드 noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
Māori
2 entries- takā noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- taukaea noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
Romanian
1 entries- mărgele noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
Russian
3 entries- ле́нта noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
- поводо́к noun (short line to attach a fishhook to a line)
- повя́зка noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- stìom noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
Spanish
3 entries- cintillo noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
- moco de pavo noun (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
- redecilla noun (band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
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And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
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serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
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