Definitions
A net or fabric covering used to hold a person's hair.
Word origin
From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”).
Used in a sentence
““Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.””
“And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.”
“serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hair holder”5 letters
02“Hair-holding net”5 letters
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