tressed

English

Etymology

tress +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɹɛst/, (poetic) /ˈtɹɛsɪd/
Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛsɪd

Adjective

tressed (not comparable)

Having tresses.
Formed into ringlets or braided.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Now hath this younker torn his tressed locks
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
  One of thy tressed curls there falling down

References

tressed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

deserts, dessert

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