adjective
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Etymology
Origin of tressed
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at tress, -ed 3
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 • Sep. 5, 2020
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 • Dec. 27, 2016
With these advantages Rundstedt has organized a fluid defense, well but tressed on its front by strong points, backed by forces that could be whipped to any threatened point.
From Time Magazine Archive
Numberless fine plaits of hair, tressed with cords and separated by bandeaux, fell in opulent masses on either side of the face.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)
Three panting goats, all aslant, but tressed themselves determinedly against the end of the house, and two boys, long since dust immune, occasionally hunted the goats into the sun and away among the ant-hills.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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