† tretis, a. Obs.
Forms: 4 tretys, 5 tretis, -ise, -ez, traytice, -yse.
[a. OF. traitis, tretis slender, graceful, well-built (12th c. in Godef.):—pop.L. type *tractīcius drawn-out, slender, f. tract-us, pa. pple. of trahĕre to draw: see -itious1.]
Well-proportioned, neat, graceful, handsome.
| ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 932 That other bowe was..Tretys and long, of good fasoun. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 5883 Hure vysage was fair & tretys. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 152 Hire nose tretys [Hengwrt tretez, Camb. tretis], hir eyen greye as glas. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxix. 112 Her forehed brod and highe ynoughe, the browes traytice and broun. Ibid., The necke [of Dydo]..longe ynoughe..and traytyse on the backe syde. |