tressed

American  

[trest] / trɛst /

adjective

1. (of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.

2. having tresses (usually used in combination).

   auburn-tressed; golden-tressed.

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tressed British  

/ trɛst /

adjective

1. (in combination) having a tress or tresses as specified

   gold-tressed

   long-tressed

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Other Word Forms

• untressed adjective

Etymology

Origin of tressed

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

Example Sentences

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."

From Fox News

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.

From Washington Post

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?

From Washington Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

“By him tressed life, massa, dis chile don’t know.”

From Project Gutenberg