Definitions
dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
Used in a sentence
“That spruce table is beautiful!”
“[A] baker's boy in a white apron and blue jumpers went by carrying a basket of bread on his head; and from the nearby tobacconist's, a spruce young lieutenant dressed in a black uniform emerged lighting a cigarette.”
“He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Make neat”6 letters
02“Neaten up”6 letters
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