Meanings
adverbsprucely (comparative more sprucely, superlative most sprucely)
comparative more sprucely · superlative most sprucely
- In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.
'Ah ! Hawk,' said one very sprucely dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind.
1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
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