tressed

English

Etymology

tress +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

tressed (not comparable)

1. Having tresses.
2. Formed into ringlets or braided.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• deserts, dessert