tressed

[ trest ]

adjective

1. (of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.
2. having tresses (usually used in combination):

   auburn-tressed; golden-tressed.

tressed

/ trɛst /

adjective

1. in combination having a tress or tresses as specified

   long-tressed

   gold-tressed

Other Words From

• un·tressed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tressed¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; tress, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Usually outrageously and often scantily dressed as a young woman, her long, dark hair often tressed in curls or an Afro, Ms. Costa was a child of the sexual revolution that came to Brazil in the 1960s along with rock music from the United States and England.

From Washington Post

He said he feared that if he did take any of those things it would "do me damage as kidneys and liver would have been gravely tressed."

From Fox News

The plot of “The Red Turtle” can be read two ways, either as an Edenic allegory of ecological balance and rebirth, or an irritating answer to the indie-film trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, in the form of a luxuriantly tressed Mystical Object of Desire.

From Washington Post

Will first daughter Ivanka Trump, currently house-hunting with husband Jared Kushner in Georgetown, get her blond locks tressed by a lowly worm local, or will she still go to New York’s notorious French-born Julien Farel?

From Washington Times

Tressed, having tresses: formed into tresses or ringlets: curled; Tress′y, pertaining to tresses, like tresses.

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