English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
2. Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Verb

1. To braid or knot hair.

People

• Arthur Tress (born 1940), American photographer
• Ronald Tress (1915-2006), British professor and director
• Tress MacNeille (born 1951), American voice actress
• William Tress, architect and designer of railway stations.

Things Called TRESS

• TressCox Lawyers
• TRESS for Training and Reporting on European Social Security or see http://www.tress-network.org/TRESS/
• Tress 90 (1990-1996), meant as the replacement for INFOTRYGD, a case-worker support system, the largest IT failure in Norwegian history.
• Ladies'-tresses, a genus of orchids
• Autumn Ladies'-tresses, the latest-blooming native species of orchid