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

Other Word Forms

• untressed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tressed¹

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

Example Sentences

Usually outrageously and often scantily dressed as a young woman, her long, dark hair often tressed in curls or an Afro, Ms. Costa was a child of the sexual revolution that came to Brazil in the 1960s along with rock music from the United States and England.

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He said he feared that if he did take any of those things it would "do me damage as kidneys and liver would have been gravely tressed."

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The plot of “The Red Turtle” can be read two ways, either as an Edenic allegory of ecological balance and rebirth, or an irritating answer to the indie-film trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, in the form of a luxuriantly tressed Mystical Object of Desire.

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Will first daughter Ivanka Trump, currently house-hunting with husband Jared Kushner in Georgetown, get her blond locks tressed by a lowly worm local, or will she still go to New York’s notorious French-born Julien Farel?

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

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