sprucely, adv.
(ˈspruːslɪ)
[f. spruce a. + -ly2.]
In a spruce manner; smartly, trimly, neatly.
| 1598 Marston Pygmal., Sat. iii, Under that fayre Ruffe so sprucely set Appeares a fall, a falling-band forsooth. 1626 T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 186 We see men..who wast all their tyme..in striuing to haue their stockings sprucely put on. 1673 E. Brown Trav. Germ. (1677) 179 Every Bastion is sprucely kept and covered within with green Turf. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life iv. xxxiii, As you walk forth freshly and sprucely dressed. 1854 Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 160 A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him. |