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tresses

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tress

[tres]
noun
1.
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
2.
a plait or braid of hair.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English tresse < Middle French: plait or braid of hair < ?
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tress
late 13c., "long lock of hair," from O.Fr. tresse "a plait or braid of hair" (12c.), perhaps from V.L. *trichia "braid, rope," from Gk. trikhia "rope," from thrix (gen. trikhos) "hair."
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