2. Verb. (third-person singular of tress) ¹
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Definition of Tresses
1. tress [n] - See also: tress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tresses
| tress tressed tressel tressels tresses (current term) tressful tressier tressiest tressing tressour | tressours tressure tressured tressures tressy trest trestle trestle-board trestle-boards |
Literary usage of Tresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Newell Convers Wyeth (1908)
"On the air about him wildly Tossed and streamed his cloudy tresses, Gleamed like
drifting snow his tresses, ... the comet, Like the star with fiery tresses. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And all the body on the bier was veil'd With tresses, which the mourners from
their locks Had shorn and cast upon him ; at his head Stately Achilles moved, ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"Macha of the Red tresses is the first of the Irish queens whose figure stands
out with sufficient boldness to fix it upon the pages of history. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... a genus 01 grasses, commonly called quaking-grass, maiden's-hair, or lady's-
tresses. .... tresses ..."
5. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... This shall soon be faded, And double-hued tbe shining tresses braided, And
all the sunlight of the morning shaded ? This her poor book is full of ..."
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