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tressed

tressed

7.2
Having hair made into braids or left long and loose
  • adjective
  • /trɛst/
  • Literature
translation icon : trenzado
  • He admired the tressed braids that framed her face so elegantly.

Examples

  • The queen entered the hall with her tressed hair adorned with jewels.

  • Her long, tressed hair flowed down her back.

  • In the painting, the girl is shown with long, tressed locks cascading over her shoulders.

  • The model had beautifully tressed locks during the photoshoot.

  • The girl wore her hair in stunning tressed braids for the dance recital.

  • With her long tressed locks flowing down her back, she looked like a fairy tale princess.

  • His tressed hairstyle made him stand out at the festival, attracting many compliments.

Synonyms

braided
vstressed
1 2.7

Made by crossing strands together, like hair or rope

refers more broadly to woven or long flowing hair arrangements

How Styled

tressed
  • Literature
7.2
tousled
5 5.3
unstyled
1 4.3

Surface Forms

tressed positive

Morphology

tressed = tress (transparent) = tress + ed

Formed by the productive adjective/past-participial suffix '-ed' on the noun 'tress', yielding 'having tresses'.

Etymology

Tressed comes from tress, a word for a 'braid' or long lock of hair and from an old French word meaning 'twist'. So, tressed means having hair arranged in braids, plaits, or long flowing locks.