snooded


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snood

 (sno͞od)
n.
1. A bag typically made of net fabric that is worn at the back of the head to keep hair in place.
2. A wide, loose, tubular scarf.
3. A headband or fillet.
4. A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak.
tr.v. snood·ed, snood·ing, snoods
To hold (the hair) in place with a snood.

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