tressy

‘It is a tressy species of moss or lichen,’ he said to himself.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Made her tressy forehead dim: -- hus she stood amid the stooks,

English Songs and Ballads Various

Nevertheless there was still a delicate freshness in the winds that blew to the little city from the purple Aegean or from the mountains of Argolis; stirring the dust into spiral dances among the pale houses upon which Lycabettos looks down; shaking the tiny leaves of the tressy pepper trees near the

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Then He drew away the orange groves, the oleander and the apricot trees, the faithful eucalyptus with its pale stems and tressy foliage, the sweet waters that fertilised the soil, making it soft and brown where the plough seamed it into furrows, the tufted plants and giant reeds that crowd where water is.

The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

'It is a tressy species of moss or lichen,' he said to himself.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

The expression "tressy forehead" in the second line of the fourth stanza means a forehead half covered with falling, loose hair.

Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Indoors nothing was to be heard save the droning of blue-bottle flies; out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

Indoors nothing was to be heard save the droning of blue-bottle flies; out-of-doors the whetting of scythes and the hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

In the swinging 1960’s, men adopted tressy hairdos and the old preconceptions about gender began to buckle like a cheaply made stiletto heel under the weight of a corpulent transvestite.

Transmanhattan! Guys, Gals Whirl in Big Gender Blender 2007

In the swinging 1960’s, men adopted tressy hairdos and the old preconceptions about gender began to buckle like a cheaply made stiletto heel under the weight of a corpulent transvestite.

Transmanhattan! Guys, Gals Whirl in Big Gender Blender 2007