Usage examples (28)

• Verb (used with object) : Spruce up the children before the company comes
• Cleanliness and spruceness are the rule among the Quincy Market men and stall-keepers.
• A spruceness of dress is also very proper and becoming at your age; as the negligence of it implies an indifference about pleasing, which does not become a young fellow.
• He had arrived at Lucinda, had charmed “Little Jinny” with his manly presence and spruceness and the amount of his personal property, supplemented by the display and...