I. ˈtres noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English tresse, from Old French trece
1.
a. archaic : a plait of hair : braid
her yellow golden hair was trimly woven and in tresses wrought — Edmund Spenser
b. : a long lock of hair ; especially : the long unbound hair of a woman — usually used in plural
a wealth of long and lustrous-dusky tresses tangled on the snow-white pillow — R.P.Warren
2. : a flexible shoot or frond
branches weaved like the tresses of marine weeds — William Sansom
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-es )
Etymology: Middle English tressen, from Middle French tresser, from Old French trecier
: to form into tresses : braid , plait
tress hair
beautiful liquid braids tressed by the streamlet — Julian Green