tress

Tress is a lock of human hair, especially women's.

(noun)

An example of a tress is a lock of hair from a little girl's first hair cut.

See tress in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: ME tresse < OFr, akin to It treccia < ? VL *trichea, a plait

female

See tress in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Origin:

Origin: Middle English tresse

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , perhaps from Vulgar Latin *trichia, tricia, rope, braid

Origin: , from Greek trikhiā, rope

Origin: , from thrix, trikh-, hair

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