tressed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɛst/, (poetic) /ˈtɹɛsɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛsɪd
Adjective
tressed (not comparable)
- Having tresses.
- Formed into ringlets or braided.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Now hath this younker torn his tressed locks
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles:
- One of thy tressed curls there falling down
References
“tressed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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