different between cressy vs tressy

English

cress +? -y

cressy (comparative more cressy, superlative most cressy)

Abounding in cresses
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
  Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves.

tress +? -y

tressy (comparative more tressy, superlative most tressy)

Abounding in tresses.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr
  With tressy wreathings borne upon the air

tressy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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