TRESS
braid, plait, tress, twist
(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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