/tɹɛs/
OriginFrom Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
“nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / th”
“Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.”
- A long lock of hair.
- broadlyA knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Formstresses(plural) · tresses(present, singular, third-person) · tressing(participle, present) · tressed(participle, past) · tressed(past) · Tresses(plural)