tressed
/tɹɛst/
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poetic/ˈtɹɛsɪd/
tressed adjective: having tresses.
Adjective
tressed (not comparable)
- Having tresses.
- Formed into ringlets or braided.
- Now hath this younker torn his tressed locks1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- One of thy tressed curls there falling down1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
Origin of tressed
From tress + -ed.
Words formed from tressed
Words that rhyme with tressed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about tressed
- What does tressed mean?
- Tressed means having tresses.
- What part of speech is tressed?
- Tressed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tressed?
- Tressed is pronounced /tɹɛst/.
Words near tressed in the dictionary
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