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Definition of spruce adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

spruce

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