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tress

  [tres] ,
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–noun
1. Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
2. a plait or braid of hair.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME tresse < MF: plait or braid of hair < ?
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tress   (trěs)   
n.  

  1. A long lock or ringlet of hair.

  2. Archaic A plait or braid of hair.


[Middle English tresse, from Old French, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *trichia, tricia, rope, braid, from Greek trikhiā, rope, from thrix, trikh-, hair.]
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