Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long lock or ringlet of hair.
- noun Archaic A plait or braid of hair.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A termination of some feminine nouns. See -ess .
- noun A plait, braid, lock, or curl of hair; any distinct portion of the hair of the head, especially when long; in the plural, the hair of the head, especially when growing abundantly.
- To furnish with or form into tresses: chiefly in the past participle used adjectively.
- noun An obsolete form of
trace . - noun A dialectal variant of
trest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
- noun Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
braid ,knot , orcurl , ofhair ; aringlet . - noun by extension A knot or
festoon , as of flowers. - verb To braid or knot hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Details include pleats, tucks and beads to sheer layers in tulle, chiffon and it a season of the "tress" - a cross between a dress and a tunic, and it epitomizes the lightness of spring.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Rock goads guys in a barbershop into talking about the limbs they'd likely lose if they ever tried to touch their girlfriends 'hair, and encourages women to comb through all sorts of what you might call "tress" - ful intimacy issues - when to take a shower together, the awkwardness of what one of them calls "weave sex," and so on.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Saugen moved, lifting to a sitting position on his mis'tress's chest.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Her lithe graceful figure, her fine, small, chiselled features, her shapely little head rather defiantly set on her sloping shoulders, her fair complexion and clear hazel eyes, her brown golden hair gathered up behind into a kind of tress, all these were Saxon rather than Celtic.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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Over by the tress are a bunch of bugs, so it's not really fun when you get to inhale them. "
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Over by the tress are a bunch of bugs, so it's not really fun when you get to inhale them. "
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But apparently my son is a martyr, for he would rather be tortured tress-less, pinched peau*-less, than give in to a couple of raging and aging opponents.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Wood is free if you own all the forests and have enslaved all the labor required to process to turn tress into something more functional.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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On the one hand, it seems such a downright, dirty, party foul to squelch out the natural and splendid sounds of nature -- the babbling brook, the wind through the tress, the chirping birds, etc. -- in favor of electronic audio.
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Instead of getting all vexed, Scooby and Shaggy-style, they should have thanked his blonde temp ... tress (Ali Larter doing a bargain basement impression of Sharon Stone at her most bargain basement) for adding some excitement to their lives.
fourfour: 2009
vanishedone commented on the word tress
Courtesy of Vexamples: Over by the tress are a bunch of bugs, so it's not really fun when you get to inhale them.
November 18, 2009