FromMiddle Englishtresse, fromOld Frenchtresce, of uncertain origin; possibly fromVulgar Latin*trichia, fromAncient Greekτριχία(trikhía,“rope”), fromθρίξ(thríx,“hair”). CompareFrenchtresse,Italiantreccia.
tress (pluraltresses)
- Abraid,knot, orcurl, ofhair; aringlet.
1910, Theodore C. Williams,The Aeneid, translation ofAeneis byVirgil, Book IVChapter 28:nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fairtress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
2006, Thomas Pynchon,Against the Day, Vintage, published2007, page397:Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governabletresses continued, with the day, to escape.
- A longlock of hair.
- (by extension) A knot orfestoon, as of flowers.
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet
- Arabic:خُصْلَة f(ḵuṣla),ضَفِيرَة f(ḍafīra)
- Armenian:խոպոպ (hy)(xopop),հյուս (hy)(hyus),ծամ (hy)(cam)
- Bashkir:толом(tolom)(braid/plait);бөҙрә(böźrə)(curl)
- Bulgarian:плитка f(plitka),кичур (bg) m(kičur)
- French:tresse (fr) f
- German:Haarsträhne (de) f,Haarlocke f,Zopf (de) m
- Irish:dlaoi f,dual m,cuach f,trilseán m
- Japanese:髪の房(kami no fusa)
- Maori:urumawhatu
- Middle English:tresse
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:hårlokk m,flette (no) m orf,krølle m orf
- Persian:گیسو (fa)(gisu),زلف (fa)(zolf)
- Plautdietsch:Schleif f
- Portuguese:trança (pt) f
- Russian:коса́ (ru) f(kosá),прядь (ru) f(prjadʹ),ло́кон (ru) m(lókon)
- Scottish Gaelic:cuach f
- Sicilian:trizza (scn) f
- Spanish:trenzada (es) f,trenza (es) f
- Swedish:hårlock (sv)
- Welsh:briger m pl
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tress (third-person singular simple presenttresses,present participletressing,simple past and past participletressed)
- Tobraid orknot hair.
