tressedadj.
/trɛst/poetic./ˈtrɛsɪd/ 1. Of the hair: Arranged in tresses; braided.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > braided or plaited
tressedc1386
plaited1582
broided1603
trammelled1609
entrammelled1611
pigtailed1725
Madonna-wise1830
Madonna-braided1849
French-braided1956
braided-
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 344 Ye wommen shul apparaille yow..noght in tressed [v.rr. trussede, tressede] heer and gay perree.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 103 Hir goldin tressit [a1586 tressis and] hairis redomyt.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 12 He plongd in payne his tressed locks dooth teare.
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. ii. 573 In two faire eyes, or in the tressed lockes.
2. Having or furnished with tresses; often as the second element in a parasynthetic compound, as gold-tressed.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [adjective]
tressedc1374
locky1468
tressful1606
tressy1614
flaky1803
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 810 To gon y-tressed with hire heerys clere Doun by hire coler.
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 5393 Hij weren..tressed in þe nekkes as a woman.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 2645 Firy Titan, gold-tressed in his spere.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cviij A Comet..Bearded, or trest, or stretching forth his taile.
1645 J. Milton Psalm cxxxvi in Poems 14 He..caus'd the Golden-tressed Sun, All the day long his cours to run.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 413 The silver tressed Summer's gone.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights xiii, in Poems 56 A brow of pearl Tresséd with redolent ebony.
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