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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tresses
noun
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▪ As the cut tresses lay scattered on the floor by the chair, Heather scrutinized the effect in the mirror.
▪ By simply massaging it on to your scalp every week you can revive and restore your tired tresses.
▪ Clynol's Gel Forming Spray was used to give subtle hold to these sexy long tresses.
▪ Her long blonde tresses were partially covered with a simple headband, a floral coronet and a chiffon train.
▪ In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses.
▪ Slowly, so slowly, he brought up handfuls of the bright tresses, and they slid like silk through his fingers.
▪ The platinum tresses falling around her shoulders are not her real hair.
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tresses

n. (plural of tress English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: tress)

Wikipedia
Tresses

''' Tresses ''' is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Usage examples of "tresses".

She wore a coppery crown on coppery tresses, with coppery rings dangling from two definitely rounded, not pointed ears.

Her hair fell down around her shoulders, the exact color of brownberry, the tresses moving like snakes as her head turned.

For temperament, he much preferred the petite, fair-haired Flore to the voluptuous Layla, whose ebony tresses were as dark as his own.

Where once she had been all bones and eyes, now she was slender curves and eyes, with gleaming tresses of pale copper that shimmered and rippled with life.

When finally she did, a cloud of pale copper tresses whirled around her shoulders and breasts.

His amber eyes gleamed sensually as he deliberately caught her hair again and slowly wrapped his fingers in her tresses, holding her prisoner.

His eyes uncharacteristically soft, he combed his fingers slowly through the luxuriant tresses, till it gleamed a glorious, shimmering mass of pale copper, falling around her shoulders in lovely, wanton disorder.

Her hair tumbled forward to spill over him, and he clutched at it, his fingers twining in the silken tresses, as a drowning man clings to a solitary rock in the midst of a crashing sea.

Her ivory skin glowed with the translucence of a pearl, her bright hair glimmered, the waving tresses threaded riotously with flaxen and gold and copper.

Her dark violet tresses gleamed, the outline of her willowy form a mere hint beneath her thin night garment.

Garbed in sleep shift, gentian tresses long and gleaming, her incredible amethyst eyes and smile offered for him alone.

Glaryd assisted Moreya in drying her long tresses and donning a clean kirtle.

With a bright silver-gold beard and gleaming tresses beneath a thin platinum crown.

A spitfire striding onto the lists to challenge you, with those long purple tresses streaming out behind her, and a firedrake as her weapon .

She frowned, then braided her tresses into a long single plait and wound into a coil atop her head.