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词汇 tress
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Definition of tress in English:

tress

noun trɛstrɛs
usually tresses
  • A long lock of a woman's hair.

    (女人的)长发

    her golden tresses tumbled about her face
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the hearth were thick tresses - very thick tresses - of gray human hair.
    • Taking the part meant shaving off his golden tresses and growing a tangled beard - a look that came to him in a dream.
    • Long, golden tresses flowed down past her waist, delicate diamonds and jewels strung between each strand.
    • Jill ran her fingers through the long blond tresses a few times for good measure.
    • He took out her hair clip and Chloe's golden tresses fell to her shoulders.
    • It would catch me every time - her silky golden red tresses, and that enchanting smile that shone right through her phenomenal hazel eyes.
    • Then, he noticed it; someone had taken the golden tresses and tied them back into a ponytail.
    • Her life is almost as golden as her streaked tresses.
    • She reached up and pulled off the black wig, and her long golden tresses tumbled around her shoulders.
    • He hauled himself into a sitting position, his wealth of black tresses tumbling down his back and framing his face in a lustrous purple-black surround.
    • Her golden honey tresses were curled to perfection, falling around her face as if she were an angel.
    • A large, heavy wig of golden tresses adorned her head, making her appear to be taller than she truly was.
    • He had ripped away one beloved hand and only a few strands remained of the once beautiful mane of golden tresses.
    • Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses.
    • Princesses with golden curls, a raven mane or shiny red tresses having adventures are what fairy tales are all about.
    • Molly threw back her hair in a flurry of golden tresses and whooped a bit longer.
    • Leigh on the other hand, was a tall and slender figured girl, with an olive complexion and dark violet tresses longer than her back.
    • Her golden tresses no longer incited a tremor to run through him.
    • She replied calmly, the blonde tresses curled in adorable ringlets around her making her face glow.
    • You will have to redye your tresses every six to eight weeks to maintain your color.
    Synonyms
    hair, head of hair, mane, mop of hair, shock of hair
    locks, curls, ringlets
verb trɛstrɛs
[with object]archaic
  • Arrange (a person's hair) into long locks.

    〈古〉把(头发)梳理成绺

Derivatives

  • tressed

  • adjective
    • usually in combination a blonde-tressed sex symbol
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The appearance of the brunette tressed (at the time) Rose in Season 4 was intended to fill the ancestral shoes of unexpectedly deceased big Halliwell sister Prue, played by everlasting bad girl Shannon Doherty.
      • The purple tressed assassin shuddered as her sister's voice reached a new peak in pitch.
      • Enough with staring wistfully at those better tressed than you.
      • It is to be hoped the happy event will rival the Hallowe'en nuptials of that gloriously tressed couple Belinda Cornish and Mark Meer.
  • tressy

  • adjective

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tresse, perhaps based on Greek trikha 'threefold'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of tress in US English:

tress

nountrestrɛs
usually tresses
  • A long lock of a woman's hair.

    (女人的)长发

    she was tugging a comb through her long tresses

    她正梳理着长发。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then, he noticed it; someone had taken the golden tresses and tied them back into a ponytail.
    • You will have to redye your tresses every six to eight weeks to maintain your color.
    • Leigh on the other hand, was a tall and slender figured girl, with an olive complexion and dark violet tresses longer than her back.
    • It would catch me every time - her silky golden red tresses, and that enchanting smile that shone right through her phenomenal hazel eyes.
    • A large, heavy wig of golden tresses adorned her head, making her appear to be taller than she truly was.
    • Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses.
    • He took out her hair clip and Chloe's golden tresses fell to her shoulders.
    • Princesses with golden curls, a raven mane or shiny red tresses having adventures are what fairy tales are all about.
    • She replied calmly, the blonde tresses curled in adorable ringlets around her making her face glow.
    • He hauled himself into a sitting position, his wealth of black tresses tumbling down his back and framing his face in a lustrous purple-black surround.
    • Her golden honey tresses were curled to perfection, falling around her face as if she were an angel.
    • She reached up and pulled off the black wig, and her long golden tresses tumbled around her shoulders.
    • Jill ran her fingers through the long blond tresses a few times for good measure.
    • Taking the part meant shaving off his golden tresses and growing a tangled beard - a look that came to him in a dream.
    • Long, golden tresses flowed down past her waist, delicate diamonds and jewels strung between each strand.
    • He had ripped away one beloved hand and only a few strands remained of the once beautiful mane of golden tresses.
    • On the hearth were thick tresses - very thick tresses - of gray human hair.
    • Molly threw back her hair in a flurry of golden tresses and whooped a bit longer.
    • Her golden tresses no longer incited a tremor to run through him.
    • Her life is almost as golden as her streaked tresses.
    Synonyms
    hair, head of hair, mane, mop of hair, shock of hair
verbtrestrɛs
[with object]archaic
  • Arrange (a person's hair) into long locks.

    〈古〉把(头发)梳理成绺

Origin

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

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