tressn.

Brit.

/trɛs/, U.S.

/trɛs/

Forms: plural Middle English tressene, Middle English– tresses, (Middle English -is, trissis); singular Middle English–1500s tresse, (1500s Scottish tres), 1500s– tress. See also trace n.³

Etymology: < French tresse, in Old French tresce a plait or braid of hair (12th cent. in Littré, etc.) = Provençal tressa , treza , Italian treccia , beside the verb French tresser , Old French trecier , Italian trecciare ‘to plaite, to tie..vp in tresses, as womens haires are’ (Florio). In Scots and some English dialects this appears also in the forms trais(s and trace : see trace n.³, trace v.³ The Old French, Provençal, and Italian nouns point to a late Latin or Romanic tricia, trecia, which appears in medieval Latin: see Du Cange. For the derivation, Diez favours a form *trichea (or *trichia) < Greek τρίχα threefold, taking the primary sense to be ‘a triple plait’. Hatzfeld & Darmesteter take tresse as verbal noun from the verb tresser.

a. A plait or braid of the hair of the head, usually of a woman: cf. trace n.³ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits

tracec1380

plight?1387

tressa1400

plexc1450

braid1530

tuck1532

buoy-rope1546

trammels1589

entrammelling1598

border1601

point1604

pleat?1606

trammelets1654

maze1657

brede1696

queue1724

pigtail?1725

tie1725

cue1731

tuck-up1749

tutulus1753

club1786

tail1799

French twist1850

Grecian plait1851

French plait1871

horse's tail1873

Gretchen braid, plait1890

shimada1910

ponytail1916

French braid1937

cane row1939

dreadlocks1960

French pleat1964

Tom Jones1964

corn row1971

dread1984

club-pigtail-

a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 478 With both honden here yaulew here Out of the tresses sche hit tere.

a1400–50 Alexander 3450 Hire hede vn-helid was on hiȝe & hild all in trissis.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 191 Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse Bihynde hir bak a yerde long I gesse.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 502/1 Tresse, of heere, trica.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/2 Tresse of heer, tresse.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 136 b Certain women, whereof one had her tresses crossed in such sort vpon her head, that they made the likenesse of two hearts bound together.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V5^v Her yellow golden heare Was trimly wouen, and in tresses wrought.

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Tresses, lockes of hayre broyded vp.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 314 Their Beautifull hair [was] divided into many tresses hanging on their shoulders.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 92 Their black hair..was bound in tresses around their heads.

1793 Ld. Macartney Jrnl. Embassy China 4 Aug. [Their hair] is platted in a tress, and falls down the back.

b. (By extension) A long lock of hair (esp. that of a woman), without any sense of its being plaited or braided; mostly in plural tresses. (The usual current sense.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]

lockeOE

forelockc1000

hair-lockc1000

earlockOE

foretopc1290

tressc1290

lachterc1375

fuke1483

sidelock1530

proudfallc1540

widow's locka1543

folding1552

fore-bush1591

flake1592

witch knot1598

tuft1603

French lock1614

head-lock1642

witch-lock1682

rat's tail1706

side-curl1749

scalp knot1805

rat-tail1823

straggler1825

scalping-tuft1826

scalp-lock1827

aggravator1835

soap-lock1840

payess1845

stringleta1852

list1859

tresslet1882

drake's tail1938

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 325/82 Heo drovȝ of hire tressene and caste a-wei.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 230 A queynt array As she had ben an hunteresse With wynde blowynge vpon hir tresse.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 298 She was all discheuelee in her heer, and Taurus hir heilde be the tresses and drough hir after his horse.

1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. E6 Rose-checkt Adonis with his amber tresses.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tresses, said of the Hair, when it hangs down in dishevell'd Locks.

1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 11 Nor Braids of Gold the vary'd Tresses bind, That fly disorder'd with the wanton Wind.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. i. vi. 75 Her long dishevelled tresses hanging to the ground.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxvi. 47 What shall a weak tress do, when powers so mighty resist not?

c. transferred and figurative (and in figurative context). Applied to long leafy shoots or tendrils, rays of the sun, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > [noun] > rays or waves

rayc1400

tress1423

radiation1570

hair1594

hair1606

irradiation1643

beam1664

light wave1871

the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tendril or twining shoot

tenaclec1500

tendril1538

clasp1577

clasper1577

winder1577

capreol1578

taglet1578

twine1579

string1585

trail1597

tress1605

nervelet1648

cirrus1708

clavicle1725

twister1799

bine1808

1423 Kingis Quair i In Aquary, Cinthia the clere Rynsid hir tressis.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 361 Some-times the Plane, somtimes the Vine they sheare, Choosing their fairest tresses.

1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. v. 205 The radiant tresses of the sun.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 145 My sonnes..will by the tresses snatch, The fittest time.

1810 T. L. Peacock Genius of Thames 65 The weeping willow droops to lave Its leafy tresses in the wave.

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab ii. 29 Luxuriant tresses of maiden-hair fern.

d. (Our) Lady's tresses: see lady's tresses n.

†2. A flat plait or braid (of interwoven threads, fibres, hairs, rushes, straw, etc.) Cf. trace n.³ 2, 3 Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun] > plaiting > that which is plaited

plaita1398

pleta1425

tressa1492

braid1530

pleat?1606

plat1609

brede1644

two-plait1882

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxvi. f. xxxviii^v/2 Saynt Anthonye made a tresse for to make a lytyll basket.

1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 82 Ane cott of variand taffatie with ane small walting tres of gold [cf. 1539, p. 32 trais of gold].

1550 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 455 Item, xvj elnis tressis put on the saittis of the saidis chiris.

†3. Heraldry. = tressure n. 2. Cf. trace n.¹ 10. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > border near edge of shield > diminutives of

tressurea1440

trace1486

tract1486

fillet1572

tress1577

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 358/2 in Chron. I They beare in their armes the Lion and Lillyes, wyth the tresse in fourme and fashion as the King of Scotlande beareth hys.

Compounds

General attributive.

tress-lifting adj.

ΚΠ

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 15 Down through tress-lifting waves the Nereids fair Wind into Thetis' bower.

tress-like adj.

ΚΠ

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xv. 277 Th'orphane..Whose tresse-like haire, and eyes still dropping pearle.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Babylon It bears spreading and ever-green branches,..adorned with long tress-like tendrils.

tress-shorn adj.

ΚΠ

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses viii. 234 And matrons Eveninan, tresses-shorn.

tress-topped adj.

ΚΠ

1871 R. Browning Balaustion 81 Past the pines Tress-topped.

Derivatives

ˈtressful adj. full of or fully furnished with tresses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [adjective]

tressedc1374

locky1468

tressful1606

tressy1614

flaky1803

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Pharao's faire daughter..Was queintly dressing of her Tress-full head Which round about her to the ground did spred.

ˈtressless adj. having no tresses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [adjective] > having no

tressless1865

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. iii. 72 The Bernburg Officers, tragically tressless in their hats.

ˈtresslet n. a little tress.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]

lockeOE

forelockc1000

hair-lockc1000

earlockOE

foretopc1290

tressc1290

lachterc1375

fuke1483

sidelock1530

proudfallc1540

widow's locka1543

folding1552

fore-bush1591

flake1592

witch knot1598

tuft1603

French lock1614

head-lock1642

witch-lock1682

rat's tail1706

side-curl1749

scalp knot1805

rat-tail1823

straggler1825

scalping-tuft1826

scalp-lock1827

aggravator1835

soap-lock1840

payess1845

stringleta1852

list1859

tresslet1882

drake's tail1938

1882 J. Walker Sc. Poems 136 A glossy tresslet of her lint-white hair.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tressv.

Forms: Also Middle English tresce.

Etymology: Middle English < French tresser , Old French trecier (12th cent. in Littré) = Provençal tressar , trezar , Italian trecciare to arrange in a tress, braid, plait; goes with tress n.The Old French form trecier indicates a late Latin type *triciāre , < tricia , trecia (or *trichia ): see tress n.

Now rare except in past participle.

a. transitive. To arrange (hair) in tresses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid

tress?a1366

browd1386

broidc1405

braid1530

border1585

entrammel1598

snake1653

queue1754

cue1774

club1779

trace1832

weave1884

?a1366 Romaunt Rose 569 And with a riche golde treasour Her hedde was tressed queintly.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 255 And hou hir yelwe her was tresced And hire atire so wel adresced.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 502/1 Tressyn heere, trico.

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. iv. 78 The Sicambrians were observed by their yellow haire, tressed and knit in cordons.

1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 29 The hair was worn long and tressed behind with a cord.

1867 Morning Star 19 Sept. Neither sex wears any covering on the head, preferring to tress..that with which nature has provided them.

b. To arrange or dispose (threads, etc.) in braids.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > make lace

braid1393

turn1846

tress1904

1862 [see tressing n. at Derivatives].

1904 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 1/3 The tiny fingers threw the bobbins swiftly from side to side, moved the pins on the pricked paper pattern, tressed the lace that had to be finished before eventide.

2. intransitive. Of the hair: To fall in tresses; to admit of being arranged in tresses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [verb (intransitive)]

tress1867

1867 Morning Star 19 Sept. The hair of the Abyssinians is..sufficiently long to tress well.

Derivatives

ˈtressing n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > binding or tressing

tressingc1425

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > processes involved in

running1817

pricking1851

tressing1862

shadow-stitch1882

c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. i, in Anglia VIII. 135/34 Tressynge & tiftynge of here.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4542 Skilful tressing, and most careful workmanship and finish, in which the exhibitor endeavoured not to be surpassed by any of his fellow competitors.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tress
释义	tressn. Brit. /trɛs/, U.S. /trɛs/ Forms: plural Middle English tressene, Middle English– tresses, (Middle English -is, trissis); singular Middle English–1500s tresse, (1500s Scottish tres), 1500s– tress. See also trace n.³ Etymology: < French tresse, in Old French tresce a plait or braid of hair (12th cent. in Littré, etc.) = Provençal tressa , treza , Italian treccia , beside the verb French tresser , Old French trecier , Italian trecciare ‘to plaite, to tie..vp in tresses, as womens haires are’ (Florio). In Scots and some English dialects this appears also in the forms trais(s and trace : see trace n.³, trace v.³ The Old French, Provençal, and Italian nouns point to a late Latin or Romanic tricia, trecia, which appears in medieval Latin: see Du Cange. For the derivation, Diez favours a form trichea (or trichia) < Greek τρίχα threefold, taking the primary sense to be ‘a triple plait’. Hatzfeld & Darmesteter take tresse as verbal noun from the verb tresser. 1. a. A plait or braid of the hair of the head, usually of a woman: cf. trace n.³ 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits tracec1380 plight?1387 tressa1400 plexc1450 braid1530 tuck1532 buoy-rope1546 trammels1589 entrammelling1598 border1601 point1604 pleat?1606 trammelets1654 maze1657 brede1696 queue1724 pigtail?1725 tie1725 cue1731 tuck-up1749 tutulus1753 club1786 tail1799 French twist1850 Grecian plait1851 French plait1871 horse's tail1873 Gretchen braid, plait1890 shimada1910 ponytail1916 French braid1937 cane row1939 dreadlocks1960 French pleat1964 Tom Jones1964 corn row1971 dread1984 club-pigtail- a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 478 With both honden here yaulew here Out of the tresses sche hit tere. a1400–50 Alexander 3450 Hire hede vn-helid was on hiȝe & hild all in trissis. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 191 Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse Bihynde hir bak a yerde long I gesse. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 502/1 Tresse, of heere, trica. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/2 Tresse of heer, tresse. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 136 b Certain women, whereof one had her tresses crossed in such sort vpon her head, that they made the likenesse of two hearts bound together. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V5^v Her yellow golden heare Was trimly wouen, and in tresses wrought. 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Tresses, lockes of hayre broyded vp. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 314 Their Beautifull hair [was] divided into many tresses hanging on their shoulders. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 92 Their black hair..was bound in tresses around their heads. 1793 Ld. Macartney Jrnl. Embassy China 4 Aug. [Their hair] is platted in a tress, and falls down the back. b. (By extension) A long lock of hair (esp. that of a woman), without any sense of its being plaited or braided; mostly in plural tresses. (The usual current sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun] lockeOE forelockc1000 hair-lockc1000 earlockOE foretopc1290 tressc1290 lachterc1375 fuke1483 sidelock1530 proudfallc1540 widow's locka1543 folding1552 fore-bush1591 flake1592 witch knot1598 tuft1603 French lock1614 head-lock1642 witch-lock1682 rat's tail1706 side-curl1749 scalp knot1805 rat-tail1823 straggler1825 scalping-tuft1826 scalp-lock1827 aggravator1835 soap-lock1840 payess1845 stringleta1852 list1859 tresslet1882 drake's tail1938 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 325/82 Heo drovȝ of hire tressene and caste a-wei. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 230 A queynt array As she had ben an hunteresse With wynde blowynge vpon hir tresse. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 298 She was all discheuelee in her heer, and Taurus hir heilde be the tresses and drough hir after his horse. 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. E6 Rose-checkt Adonis with his amber tresses. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tresses, said of the Hair, when it hangs down in dishevell'd Locks. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 11 Nor Braids of Gold the vary'd Tresses bind, That fly disorder'd with the wanton Wind. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. i. vi. 75 Her long dishevelled tresses hanging to the ground. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxvi. 47 What shall a weak tress do, when powers so mighty resist not? c. transferred and figurative (and in figurative context). Applied to long leafy shoots or tendrils, rays of the sun, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > [noun] > rays or waves rayc1400 tress1423 radiation1570 hair1594 hair1606 irradiation1643 beam1664 light wave1871 the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tendril or twining shoot tenaclec1500 tendril1538 clasp1577 clasper1577 winder1577 capreol1578 taglet1578 twine1579 string1585 trail1597 tress1605 nervelet1648 cirrus1708 clavicle1725 twister1799 bine1808 1423 Kingis Quair i In Aquary, Cinthia the clere Rynsid hir tressis. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 361 Some-times the Plane, somtimes the Vine they sheare, Choosing their fairest tresses. 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. v. 205 The radiant tresses of the sun. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 145 My sonnes..will by the tresses snatch, The fittest time. 1810 T. L. Peacock Genius of Thames 65 The weeping willow droops to lave Its leafy tresses in the wave. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab ii. 29 Luxuriant tresses of maiden-hair fern. d. (Our) Lady's tresses: see lady's tresses n. †2. A flat plait or braid (of interwoven threads, fibres, hairs, rushes, straw, etc.) Cf. trace n.³ 2, 3 Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun] > plaiting > that which is plaited plaita1398 pleta1425 tressa1492 braid1530 pleat?1606 plat1609 brede1644 two-plait1882 a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxvi. f. xxxviii^v/2 Saynt Anthonye made a tresse for to make a lytyll basket. 1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 82 Ane cott of variand taffatie with ane small walting tres of gold [cf. 1539, p. 32 trais of gold]. 1550 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 455 Item, xvj elnis tressis put on the saittis of the saidis chiris. †3. Heraldry. = tressure n. 2. Cf. trace n.¹ 10. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > border near edge of shield > diminutives of tressurea1440 trace1486 tract1486 fillet1572 tress1577 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 358/2 in Chron. I They beare in their armes the Lion and Lillyes, wyth the tresse in fourme and fashion as the King of Scotlande beareth hys. Compounds General attributive. tress-lifting adj. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 15 Down through tress-lifting waves the Nereids fair Wind into Thetis' bower. tress-like adj. ΚΠ 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xv. 277 Th'orphane..Whose tresse-like haire, and eyes still dropping pearle. 1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Babylon It bears spreading and ever-green branches,..adorned with long tress-like tendrils. tress-shorn adj. ΚΠ 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses viii. 234 And matrons Eveninan, tresses-shorn. tress-topped adj. ΚΠ 1871 R. Browning Balaustion 81 Past the pines Tress-topped. Derivatives ˈtressful adj. full of or fully furnished with tresses. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [adjective] tressedc1374 locky1468 tressful1606 tressy1614 flaky1803 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Pharao's faire daughter..Was queintly dressing of her Tress-full head Which round about her to the ground did spred. ˈtressless adj. having no tresses. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [adjective] > having no tressless1865 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. iii. 72 The Bernburg Officers, tragically tressless in their hats. ˈtresslet n. a little tress. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun] lockeOE forelockc1000 hair-lockc1000 earlockOE foretopc1290 tressc1290 lachterc1375 fuke1483 sidelock1530 proudfallc1540 widow's locka1543 folding1552 fore-bush1591 flake1592 witch knot1598 tuft1603 French lock1614 head-lock1642 witch-lock1682 rat's tail1706 side-curl1749 scalp knot1805 rat-tail1823 straggler1825 scalping-tuft1826 scalp-lock1827 aggravator1835 soap-lock1840 payess1845 stringleta1852 list1859 tresslet1882 drake's tail1938 1882 J. Walker Sc. Poems 136 A glossy tresslet of her lint-white hair. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tressv. Forms: Also Middle English tresce. Etymology: Middle English < French tresser , Old French trecier (12th cent. in Littré) = Provençal tressar , trezar , Italian trecciare to arrange in a tress, braid, plait; goes with tress n.The Old French form trecier indicates a late Latin type triciāre , < tricia* , trecia (or trichia ): see tress n. Now rare* except in past participle. 1. a. transitive. To arrange (hair) in tresses. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid tress?a1366 browd1386 broidc1405 braid1530 border1585 entrammel1598 snake1653 queue1754 cue1774 club1779 trace1832 weave1884 ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 569 And with a riche golde treasour Her hedde was tressed queintly. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 255 And hou hir yelwe her was tresced And hire atire so wel adresced. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 502/1 Tressyn heere, trico. 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. iv. 78 The Sicambrians were observed by their yellow haire, tressed and knit in cordons. 1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 29 The hair was worn long and tressed behind with a cord. 1867 Morning Star 19 Sept. Neither sex wears any covering on the head, preferring to tress..that with which nature has provided them. b. To arrange or dispose (threads, etc.) in braids. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > make lace braid1393 turn1846 tress1904 1862 [see tressing n. at Derivatives]. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 24 May 1/3 The tiny fingers threw the bobbins swiftly from side to side, moved the pins on the pricked paper pattern, tressed the lace that had to be finished before eventide. 2. intransitive. Of the hair: To fall in tresses; to admit of being arranged in tresses. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [verb (intransitive)] tress1867 1867 Morning Star 19 Sept. The hair of the Abyssinians is..sufficiently long to tress well. Derivatives ˈtressing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > binding or tressing tressingc1425 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > processes involved in running1817 pricking1851 tressing1862 shadow-stitch1882 c1425 St. Mary of Oignies i. i, in Anglia VIII. 135/34 Tressynge & tiftynge of here. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4542 Skilful tressing, and most careful workmanship and finish, in which the exhibitor endeavoured not to be surpassed by any of his fellow competitors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > see also also refers to : -tresssuffix < n.c1290v.?a1366 see also
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