Tress

Definitions

1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
2. A surname.
3. A long lock of hair.
4. A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die⟳, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.”

“Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape⟳.”

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