tressed

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/tɹɛst/poetic/ˈtɹɛsɪd/

adjective

Having tresses.

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Meanings

adjectivetressed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving tresses.
  2. not comparableFormed into ringlets or braided.

    One of thy tressed curls there falling down

    1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
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    Now hath this younker torn his tressed locks

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From tress + -ed.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tressed

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Anagrams

dessert
Cite this entry
APA

tressed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tressed

MLA

“tressed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tressed. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tressed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tressed.

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