snood

UK: /snuːd/ US: (sno̅o̅d)

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snood  (sno̅o̅d), n. 

1. Clothing the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
2. Clothing a headband for the hair.
3. Clothing a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.
4. Anatomy the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

v.t. 

5. to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.

• bef. 900; Middle English: fillet, ribbon; Old English snōd

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snood / snuːd/ noun

1. a pouchlike hat, often of net, loosely holding a woman's hair at the back
2. a headband, esp one formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland

Etymology: Old English snōd; of obscure origin