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Noun
Turkey snoods signal dominance to both hens and gobblers alike.—Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2025 Mature males grow long, glorious, pendulous snoods.—Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2025 Make sure to layer yours beneath sweeping coats and luxe accessories, like snoods and scarves.—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024 And here, Chappell wears a black snood, black corset, black lace gloves, and black boots, all balanced atop brown hooves.—Jennifer Culp, Them, 26 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for snood
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English *snod, from Old English snōd
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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