tressed

1 7.2

Having hair made into braids or left long and loose

adjective
/trɛst/

Literature

: 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

14 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

1 7.2

tousled

6 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.