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Snood

Postby eberntson » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:17 pm

This is not much im play now, but you would be amazed how many of my friends actually know what it is. Hey if the 80's can be back why not the 1880's... :lol:
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Postby gailr » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:26 pm

I briefly considered changing my avatar's vulture crown for a nemes headdress, which could be considered a kind of snood...

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Postby skinem » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:02 pm

I didn't know what to call that thing that the Mennonite women around here had on their hair.
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Postby Stargzer » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:11 am

A definition from Wiktionary:
Noun
snood (plural snoods)

1. A small net or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place

2. The flap of skin on the beak of a turkey.

Transitive verb
to snood

1. To keep the hair in place with a snood

Proper noun
Snood

1. A puzzle game played on small computers

Wikipedia has an article on:
Snood (headgear)

Wikipedia has an article on:
Snood (game)
A description from Wikipedia.

This Wikipedia disambiguation page shows that men had their own snoods.
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