Meaning & use
Tressed
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Having tresses; adorned with long locks of hair.
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The painting showed a golden-tressed maiden by the water.
Her dark, tressed hair fell past her shoulders.
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A literary and somewhat old-fashioned adjective, common in poetry and fairy-tale description rather than everyday speech.
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