tress

[ tres ]
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noun
  1. Usually tresses. long locks or curls of hair.

  2. a plait or braid of hair.

Origin of tress

1
1250–1300; Middle English tresse<Middle French: plait or braid of hair < ?

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How to use tress in a sentence

  • A second gust of wind came from the cliff, blowing against his hand a long tress of her hair.

    The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa
  • And the sun was glancing on many a gemmed fillet and many a ribbon-decked, blond tress that fell nigh to its proud owner's knees.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • When they lifted him up and laid him on his bed, in his clenched right hand they found a small tress of a woman's dark hair.

  • If one cuts a tress of your hair with a stroke of the Sword of Light it will take you out of that slumber.

  • He once showed his wife a beautiful tress of Thyrzas hair, but never mentioned her real name.

    Byron | Richard Edgcumbe

British Dictionary definitions for tress

tress

/ (trɛs) /


noun
  1. (often plural) a lock of hair, esp a long lock of woman's hair

  2. a plait or braid of hair

verb
  1. (tr) to arrange in tresses

Origin of tress

1
C13: from Old French trece, of uncertain origin

Derived forms of tress

  • tressy, adjective

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