tresses

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A. It has; the Mosaic, or checkered pavement; the indented tressel; that beautiful tesselated border which surrounds it, with the blazing star in the centre.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William

And send for the Raveggi Company to do the funeral pomps, and see they don't put me on a tressel.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

The first I entered was a bedroom, the only furniture being a common bed, or a tressel like that of a hospital, a little coloured print of St. Michael adorning the wall overhead.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

They are both sitting on a sort of tressel or armed bench, one of the arms and legs and one of the tassels of the cushion appear on the left side of Sir Thomas.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah

There was also a tent made of double canvas weighing fifty pounds, and two light folding tressel beds weighing fifteen pounds apiece.

From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)