TRESSING

Verb

tressing

present participle of tress

Anagrams

• Stingers, Tserings, restings, singster, stingers, trigness

Source: Wiktionary


TRESS

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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