tresses, perfectionate

When Parisians learned last week that President François Hollande paid his hairdresser more than $10,000 a month to cut his hair, a howl was heard from Montmartre to the Marais. Not since President Bill Clinton shut down two runways in 1993 for a $200 trim aboard Air Force One have the tresses of a head of state been so widely discussed.


"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
--Victor Frankenstein from FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley



 Long, long, let me bite your black and heavy tresses. When I gnaw your elastic and rebellious hair I seem to be eating memories.” 

【髮茨中的半球】

『讓我久久地咬碎妳濃密的,黑色地髮瓣.當我咬妳那富於彈性且具有叛逆性的頭髮時候,我好像在吞食回憶。』

Brune/Blonde, The Online Exhibition, 2010 A hemisphere in your hair, Charles Baudelaire, 1862 1 Charles BAUDELAIRE A hemisphere in your hair (Published in 1862 in, Le Spleen de Paris). 

tress 

Pronunciation: /trɛs/ 

NOUN

(usually tresses)

A long lock of a woman’s hair:her golden tresses tumbled about her face

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT] archaic

Arrange (a person’s hair) into long locks.

Derivatives

tressed

ADJECTIVE

[USUALLY IN COMBINATION]: a blonde-tressed sex symbol

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tressy

ADJECTIVE

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tresse, perhaps based on Greek trikha 'threefold'.

perfectionate

Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛkʃəneɪt/  /pəˈfɛkʃ(ə)neɪt/ 

Now rare

VERB

[WITH OBJECT] To bring to perfection; to make perfect or complete; to perfect; to make (a person) perfect in (a study, etc.).

Origin

Late 16th century; earliest use found in John Foxe (?1517–1587), martyrologist. Fromperfection + -ate, after Middle French perfectionner. Compare Catalan perfeccionar, Spanishperfeccionar, Italian perfezionare.