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snood

/snuːd/

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noun

Réseau à cheveux, coiffe

A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.

Examples :

"Example sentence: "She wore a pretty snood to keep her long hair neatly tucked away while she helped her grandmother bake cookies." "

Elle portait une jolie coiffe pour garder ses longs cheveux bien rentrés pendant qu'elle aidait sa grand-mère à faire des biscuits.

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noun

Réseau à cheveux, bonnet

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

Examples :

"My grandmother always wore a snood to keep her hair neat while she baked cookies. "

Ma grand-mère portait toujours un bonnet pour garder ses cheveux bien en place pendant qu'elle cuisinait des biscuits.

wear style appearance

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noun

Carancule

The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.

Examples :

"During the Thanksgiving parade, the excited child pointed at the turkey float and shouted, "Look at the turkey's long, red snood bouncing!" "

Pendant le défilé de Thanksgiving, l'enfant excité a pointé du doigt le char de la dinde et a crié : « Regarde la longue carancule rouge de la dinde qui rebondit ! »

animal bird anatomy physiology part body

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noun

Bas de ligne

A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.

Examples :

"The fisherman carefully tied the small snood to his fishing line before attaching the hook. "

Le pêcheur a soigneusement attaché le petit bas de ligne à sa ligne de pêche avant d'attacher l'hameçon.

fish nautical item sport animal

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noun

Cache-cou, tour de cou

A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

Examples :

"My grandmother knitted me a thick, woolen snood to protect my neck from the winter wind. "

Ma grand-mère m'a tricoté un épais cache-cou en laine pour protéger mon cou du vent d'hiver.

wear style appearance item

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verb

Coiffer les cheveux avec un snood

To keep the hair in place with a snood.

Examples :

"She decided to snood her hair before going to the garden to protect it from the wind. "

Elle a décidé de coiffer ses cheveux avec un snood avant d'aller au jardin pour les protéger du vent.

appearance style wear