tress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 trĕs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
    — 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.
  2. A long lock of hair.
  3. A knot or festoon, as of flowers. broadly
动词 v.
  1. To braid or knot hair.

词形变化

tresses plural tresses present,singular,third-person tressing participle,present tressed participle,past tressed past

词汇关系

衍生词
mermaid's tresses tressful tressless tresslike tressy untress

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.
词源 2
From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.
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