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Definition of Tressed
1. a. Having tresses.
Definition of Tressed
1. Adjective. Having tresses. ¹
2. Adjective. Formed into ringlets or braided. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tressed
1. tress [adj] - See also: tress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tressed
| tres-tynes tresayle tresis tress tressed (current term) tressel tressels tresses tressful tressier | tressiest tressing tressour tressours tressure tressured tressures tressy trest |
Literary usage of Tressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"Second visit On the journey they were disto Coburg, tressed by the intelligence
of the death of the prince consort's stepmother, with whom they had both ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... There might ben no fairer creature, And ofte time this was her manere, To
gone ¡tressed with her haires clere Downe by her colère, at her backe behind, ..."
3. English Songs: And Other Small Poems by Barry Cornwall (1851)
"SING, I pray, a little song, Mother dear! Neither sad nor very long : It is for
a little maid, Golden-tressed Adelaide! Therefore let it suit a merry, ..."
4. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect by Hezekiah Niles (1822)
"... and it il our fervent wish and prayers, that be may long live to tread the
footsteps of his illustrious father, in being the friend of the dis tressed, ..."
5. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and lib-
tressed Calamities ..."
6. Women Writers: Their Works and Ways by Catherine Jane Hamilton (1893)
"Birth at Bedford Square—" Barry Cornwall"—" Golden-tressed Adelaide " —Contributor
to Household Words as " Miss Mary Berwick"—Goes to Italy—The truth comes ..."
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