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Spruced up   /sprust əp/   Listen
Spruced up

adjective
1.
Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.  Synonyms: dolled up, dressed, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, togged up.






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"Spruced up" Quotes from Famous Books



... I feel the need of being spruced up a good deal myself this morning, Ida May," he continued. "D'you see how straggly my hair is gettin'? Do you think you ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... vast crowds poured into Richmond—each man with a little money and anxious to use it to some advantage—trade put on a new and holiday dress. Old shops were spruced up; old stocks, by aid of brushing and additions, were made to appear quite salable and rapidly ran off. The demand made the meat it fed upon, until stores, shops and booths sprang up in all parts of the city and on all the roads leading into it from the camps. Gradually—from causes already noted—supplies ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon



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