tresses

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WSJ | Buy Side: From high-heat titanium tools for coarse hair to gentle ceramic irons for fine tresses, these are the best hair straighteners we tested.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Most gladiatrices sported cropped hair, as Amazon and Achillia do in their marble relief, but a high-born fighter might have elected to keep her tresses.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024

The outfits are made of colorful living material, including headdresses of tillandsia, or air plants, and tresses of huperzia, a tropical clubmoss.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

She sheared the long black tresses that had been her signature look.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

“What is this, then? You have beautiful hair. Luxuriant tresses, I would say. Sweet-smelling despite your recent ordeal. Do you call this nothing?”

From "Son" by Lois Lowry