a. Obs. Forms: 4 tretys, 5 tretis, -ise, -ez, traytice, -yse. [a. OF. traitis, tretis slender, graceful, well-built (12th c. in Godef.):—pop.L. type *tractīcius drawn-ont, slender, f. tract-us, pa. pple. of trahĕre to draw: see -ITIOUS1.] Well-proportioned, neat, graceful, handsome.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 932. That other bowe was … Tretys and long, of good fasoun.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 5883. Hure vysage was fair & tretys.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 152. Hire nose tretys [Hengwrt tretez, Camb. tretis], hir eyen greye as glas.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxix. 112. Her forehed brod and highe ynoughe, the browes traytice and broun. Ibid. The necke [of Dydo] … longe ynoughe … and traytyse on the backe syde.
