tresses, perfectionate. Middle Eastern strongmen seldom enjoy tidy exits. But the ayatollah had carefully prepared for succession. By choosing to remain in his known compound, one commentator suggests, “he orchestrated his death”

Middle Eastern strongmen seldom enjoy tidy exits. But the ayatollah had carefully prepared for succession. By choosing to remain in his known compound, one commentator suggests, “he orchestrated his death” https://econ.st/4rdFCuV

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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.