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tressed, ppl. a. and a.
(trɛst, poet. ˈtrɛsɪd)
[f. tress n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Of the hair: Arranged in tresses; braided.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 344 Ye wommen shul apparaille yow..noght in tressed [v.rr trussede, tressede] heer and gay perree. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlvi. 77 Hir goldin tressit hairis redomyt. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Apr. 12 He plongd in payne his tressed locks dooth teare. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger 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.
13..K. Alis. 5393 (Bodl. MS.), Hij weren..tressed in þe nekkes as a woman. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 2645 Firy Titan, gold-tressed in his spere. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. Cviij, A Comet..Bearded, or trest, or stretching forth his taile. 1623–4Milton Ps. cxxxvi. 30 He..caus'd the Golden-tressed Sun All the day long his cours to run. 1758Poetry in Ann. Reg. 413 The silver tressed Summer's gone. 1830Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nts. xiii, A brow of pearl Tressed with redolent ebony. |