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A neck-warmer for humans and the dangly red flag that turkeys can't fake-tan.
means A snood is a tube of fabric worn around the neck (and sometimes pulled up over the head), or, in older use, a hairnet or band that holds a woman's hair back — and, separately, the fleshy fold of skin draped over a turkey's beak.
from An old word with deep roots: it comes from Old English 'snōd,' a band or fillet for binding up a woman's hair. The exact ancestry beyond that is murky, though it may be related to words for tying or twisting. For centuries it stayed a Scottish and northern English term for a maiden's hair-ribbon, later stretching to mean a hairnet, then the modern neck-tube. The turkey sense is a much later borrowing of the same word, applied to that dangling flap simply because it hangs and droops like a loose band.
- turkey anatomy
- The fleshy flap dangling over a tom's beak
- hen preference
- Females favor males with longer snoods
- medieval hair
- A net once held noblewomen's hair in place
- color shift
- Pales when nervous, reddens when excited
snood of agnes sorel — ornate gold mesh headpiece worn by the mistress of charles vii of france, 15th century
snood net regulation — required hairnet in uk food manufacturing to prevent hair contamination, enforced by fsa