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Tress(es) a plait; a braid or lock of hair. Examples: tress of flowers; of hair, 1386; of rushes; of straw; leafy tresses of the wave, 1810; luxuriant tresses of the maidenhead fern, 1875; radiant tresses of the sun, 1641.
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He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many tress there were in the most distant clump. There are no spies, anyhow, hiding in the tress of Berkeley Street," he added, glancing about them. said Levin, watching a slender tress at the back of her round little head that was continually hidden when she passed the comb through the front. |
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