tressed
Origin of tressed
1Other words from tressed
- un·tressed, adjective
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How to use tressed in a sentence
Ginger people are back in the spotlight as the fashion world embraces Titian-tressed models for fall.
Homer (Odyssey, v. 390) speaks of “the fair-tressed Dawn,” εὐπλόκαμος Ἠώς.
Milton's Comus | John MiltonAs man is usually ruled by contrast, this was probably the reason why he loved the dark-tressed, brown-eyed Pauline.
The Bastonnais | John LesperanceThe eager charioteers stand round and pat their chests with clapping hollowed hands, and comb their tressed manes.
The Aeneid of Virgil | VirgilAnd why was that brown-tressed head with its hidden face bowed down in that other room, in an agony of sorrow?
The Last Stroke | Lawrence L. Lynch
tressed, having tresses: formed into tresses or ringlets: curled; Tress′y, pertaining to tresses, like tresses.
British Dictionary definitions for tressed
/ (trɛst) /
(in combination) having a tress or tresses as specified: gold-tressed; long-tressed
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