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Word entry · 5 letters

snood

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"Hair holder"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /snuːd/Part of speech nounSorted dnoosStarts with SEnds with D2 clues
1S2N3O4O5D

Definitions

  1. 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 […]

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Hair holder5 letters
02Hair-holding net5 letters

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