What is a snood, and where can I acquire one?
My old “Concise Oxford Dictionary” defines a snood as a “fillet worn by maidens in Scotland to confine hair”, but we would use the word to mean a device to keep the moustache in place when sleeping. There is a famous scene in Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot movie “Death on the Nile”, from 1978 starring Peter Ustinov. In the scene in question, when Poirot is awakened during the night he appears wearing a snood. The only place that I know of where they can be purchased is the STERN web site, where they are listed as Moustache bands.
