Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing or having a snood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing or having a snood.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
snood .
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Examples
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The elder maid-servant wore a good stuff gown — the younger snooded up her hair, and now went about the house a damsel so trig and neat, that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine; and others, that they saw no business so old
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband, then the only ornament or cover which young unmarried women wore on their head, and as she adjusted the scarlet tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands.
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Slothrop approaches gold-snooded M.M. a little deferent, "uh, do you think you could ..."
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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She wore her fair hair looped in intricate plaiting, the whole snooded in a gem-spangled net.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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At the first experience of this busy community, the innumerable children playing before the school, and the women with wide flowing clothes, and flowered bonnets on their heads, though so different from the children of the glen and its familiar dames with piped caps, or maids with snooded locks -- all was pleasant to his wondering view.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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To be a poet, he says: to have heard the gold-snooded Muses sing: is the highest happiness a mortal can know; he is mindful of the soul, the
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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That music is the creative force at work, the whirr of the loom of the Eternal; it is the golden-snooded Muses at song.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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She died, and they snooded her hair and buried her.
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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The pearls about her neck became her mightily, as did the green ribbon, the same shade as her dress, snooded in her hair.
Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896
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Forrest's eyes, embracing all of the Big House, centered for a quick solicitous instant on the great wing across the two-hundred-foot court, where, under climbing groups of towers, red-snooded in the morning sun, the drawn shades of the sleeping-porch tokened that his lady still slept.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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