adjective
Other Word Forms
- untressed adjective
Etymology
Origin of tressed
Example Sentences
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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."
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
Tressed, having tresses: formed into tresses or ringlets: curled; Tress′y, pertaining to tresses, like tresses.
From Project Gutenberg
Thou shalt have that tressed hair Adonis tangled all for spite; And the mouth he would not kiss, And the treasure he would miss; And the hand he would not press And the warmth he would distress.
From Project Gutenberg
See, it falls to his breast, Curling and gently tressed, The hair of the Wild Bull's crest— The young steer of the fell!
From Project Gutenberg
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