braid, plait, tress, twist
(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tress (plural tresses)
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
(by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)
To braid or knot hair.
• 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
2 July 2025
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
