TRESS

braid, plait, tress, twist

(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

tress (plural tresses)

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

(by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Verb

tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)

To braid or knot hair.

Anagrams

• RTSes, SERTs, TRSes, rests

Source: Wiktionary

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Tress, n. Etym: [OE. tresse, OF. trece, F. tresse, LL. tricia, fr. Gr. tri`cha threefold, because a tress is usually formed by interlacing three pieces; akin to trei^s three. See Three.]

1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. Chaucer. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. Pope.

2. Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Keats.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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