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   tress

   /tres/

   noun

   • 1. a long lock of a woman's hair: "she was tugging a comb through her long tresses"

   verb

   • 1. arrange (a person's hair) into long locks. archaic

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French tresse, perhaps based on Greek trikha ‘threefold’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tressed adjective
   • 2. tressy adjective

   Scrabble Points: 5

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