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tressed

[ trest ]

adjective

  1. (of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.
  2. having tresses (usually used in combination):

    auburn-tressed; golden-tressed.



tressed

/ trɛst /

adjective

  1. in combination having a tress or tresses as specified

    gold-tressed

    long-tressed



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Other Words From

  • un·tressed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tressed1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; tress, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

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.

As man is usually ruled by contrast, this was probably the reason why he loved the dark-tressed, brown-eyed Pauline.

The eager charioteers stand round and pat their chests with clapping hollowed hands, and comb their tressed manes.

And why was that brown-tressed head with its hidden face bowed down in that other room, in an agony of sorrow?

Tressed, having tresses: formed into tresses or ringlets: curled; Tress′y, pertaining to tresses, like tresses.

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