ppl. a. and a. [f. TRESS sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Of the hair: Arranged in tresses; braided.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Wife’s Prol., 344. Ye wommen shul apparaille yow … noght in tressed [v.rr. trussede, tressede] heer and gay perree.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xlvi. 77. Hir goldin tressit hairis redomyt.

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1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., April, 12. He plongd in payne his tressed locks dooth teare.

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1612.  trans. Benvenuto’s Passenger, II. 573. In two faire eyes, or in the tressed lockes.

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  2.  Having or furnished with tresses; often as the second element in a parasynthetic compound, as gold-tressed.

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13[?].  K. Alis., 5393 (Bodl. MS.). Hij weren … tressed in þe nekkes as a woman.

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1412–20.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 2645. Firy Titan, gold-tressed in his spere.

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1601.  Weever, Mirr. Mart., Cviij. A Comet … Bearded, or trest, or stretching forth his taile.

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1623–4.  Milton, Paraphr. Ps. cxxxvi. 30. He … caus’d the Golden-tressed Sun All the day long his cours to run.

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1758.  Poetry, in Ann. Reg., 413. The silver tressed Summer’s gone.

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1830.  Tennyson, Recoll. Arab. Nts., xii. A brow of pearl Tressed with redolent ebony.

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