spruce
adjective/spruːs/
/spruːs/
- (of people or places) neat and clean in appearanceWord Originadjective late 16th cent.: perhaps from spruce (noun) in the obsolete sense ‘Prussian’, in the phrase spruce (leather) jerkin.
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