tress
IPA: trˈɛs
noun
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
- A long lock of hair
- (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
- A surname.
verb
- To braid or knot hair.
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Examples of "tress" in Sentences
- Insects of eastern hardwood tress.
- Several tress and hills in the background.
- I can provide family tress for your perusal.
- Secondly by a forest of tall tress of wide leaves.
- The village fields below are planted with olive tress.
- Hence they would protect tress and take what was needed.
- The slopes of the hill have numerous tress and bushy plants.
- During the winter months the tress are decorated with lights.
- Saugen moved, lifting to a sitting position on his mis'tress's chest.
- Over by the tress are a bunch of bugs, so it's not really fun when you get to inhale them. "
- Wood is free if you own all the forests and have enslaved all the labor required to process to turn tress into something more functional.
- But apparently my son is a martyr, for he would rather be tortured tress-less, pinched peau*-less, than give in to a couple of raging and aging opponents.
- Details include pleats, tucks and beads to sheer layers in tulle, chiffon and it a season of the "tress" - a cross between a dress and a tunic, and it epitomizes the lightness of spring.
- On the one hand, it seems such a downright, dirty, party foul to squelch out the natural and splendid sounds of nature -- the babbling brook, the wind through the tress, the chirping birds, etc. -- in favor of electronic audio.
- Instead of getting all vexed, Scooby and Shaggy-style, they should have thanked his blonde temp ... tress (Ali Larter doing a bargain basement impression of Sharon Stone at her most bargain basement) for adding some excitement to their lives.
- Her lithe graceful figure, her fine, small, chiselled features, her shapely little head rather defiantly set on her sloping shoulders, her fair complexion and clear hazel eyes, her brown golden hair gathered up behind into a kind of tress, all these were Saxon rather than Celtic.
- Rock goads guys in a barbershop into talking about the limbs they'd likely lose if they ever tried to touch their girlfriends 'hair, and encourages women to comb through all sorts of what you might call "tress" - ful intimacy issues - when to take a shower together, the awkwardness of what one of them calls "weave sex," and so on.