Definition of "snood" []

• A small netlike cap worn by women to keep the hair in place. (noun)
• A headband or fillet. (noun)
• A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey's beak. (noun)
• To hold (the hair) in place with a snood. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Another popular style of the 30s and 40s was the snood, which is sort of like a hammock for your hair worn at the back of your neck."
• "A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls."
• "To each line were fastened eight or ten snoods: a snood is a short line with a hook at the end."