What is a snood?

[L Verge]

(10-15-2015 04:55 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(10-15-2015 01:38 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Personally, I think snoods should stay in fashion because they are a lovely way to hide bad-hair days!

They are still in fashion, just nowadays fashily called "slouchy beanie summer hat":
http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/knitting/...-hat/44927
(...very similar at least...)

Would these be called snoods, too?

Same principle, but worn farther back on the crown of the head. The ladies of the 1800s used to like to finish them off with a decorative band where the snood met the hair at the top of the head.

Somewhere I read that bun coverings had another name, but I can't remember what. I'll google!

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Here's what Gutnish is: The old language of the island of Gotland in present day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times. Modern Gutnish is considered to have become a dialect of Swedish.