Meanings
adjectivegot-up (comparative more got-up, superlative most got-up)
comparative more got-up · superlative most got-up
- Of clothing, styled extravagantly.
His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of character.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 207
Origin
From get up (“to dress [extravagantly]”).
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