Library / English Dictionary

TRESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

Synonyms:

braid; plait; tress; twist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tress" is a kind of...):

coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tress"):

queue (a braid of hair at the back of the head)

pigtail (a plait of braided hair)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The two younger of the trio (fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)