tress

Definitions


[trɛs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long lock of a woman's hair
(e.g: her golden tresses tumbled about her face)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French tresse, perhaps based on Greek trikha ‘threefold’


[trɛs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- arrange (a person's hair) into long locks


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French tresse, perhaps based on Greek trikha ‘threefold’




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