What is "snoods"

Usage examples of "snoods".

Much of the clothing the people wore was made of animal skin for warmth and durability, but there were luxury items of woven cloth—skirts, bandeaus, snoods, sashes, and belts.

In opera hats, bedgowns, bonnets, yellow slickers, periwigs, knickers and snoods they paraded under the sun, some of the "women," seen now at closer range, appearing to be men in women's clothing, as though to correct a deficiency and even up the pairings.

Their hair was caught back in snoods that sparkled with some bright diamondy stuff in the light of the torches.

Some of the women wore jewelry (though nothing so expensive as sai Thorin's firedim earrings), and few looked as if they'd missed many meals, but they also wore clothes Roland recognized: the long, round-collared dresses, usually with the lace fringe of a colored underskirt showing below the hem, the dark shoes with low heels, the snoods (most sparkling with gem-dust, as those of Olive and Coral Thorin had been).

The road dropped again to lake level and the landscape began to be full of girls in gaudy slacks and snoods and peasant handkerchiefs and rat rolls and fat soled sandals and fat white thighs.

Historians in the Fifties wore them, too, along with braids and snoods and coronets, anything to keep the long hair they had to have for their drops out of the way.

Everyone talked or shouted in a babble of tongues while babes screamed from their cradle-boards and tore at their mothers’ snoods and drivers flicked whips to clear the way for long lumbering carts crowded with ancients.