Hoods Worn: Then & Now from blindfolded meaning Watch Video
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Description: The cowled monks of history and Little Red Riding Hood of fiction were lucky not to have been mown down on the excuse that their clothing was asking for it. But hood, describing the covering for head and neck, was part of English from the start. The Anglo-Saxons spelled it hod, from the Old High German huot, also the source of hat. By Middle English, it described the hoods worn by professionals and other distinguished types.nnTo hoodwink someone is to trick him, but its meaning in the 1500s was
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