ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not arranged in tresses; loose, disheveled.
c. 1381. Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 268. Her gylt heares with a gold threde Ybounde were, vntressyd [Camb. Unit. MS. vntrussede] as she lay. Ibid. (c. 1386), Knt.’s T., 1431. Hir brighte heer was kempd vntressed [MSS. Camb. & Lansd. vntrussed] al.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. 4124. Vntressid hir her abrod gan sprede, Like to gold wyr, for-rent & al to-torn.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 861. A … womman, vnshood, Vntressed, al aboute to goon is good.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 33. Troy dames … with locks vntressed al hanging.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1626), 131. Her haire Vntrest, her garments loose.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Poems (1851), II. 387. She … with her untress’d hair Still wiped the feet.
