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Spruced up

adjective

Dressed in fancy or formal clothing. Synonyms: dolled up, dressed, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, togged up.

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... brought Rosalie back to Tinkletown after her second and last year with Miss Brown in New York City. The sun seemed brighter, the birds sang more blithely, the flowers took on a new fragrance and the village spruced up as if Sunday was the only day in the week. The young men of the town trembled when she passed them by, and not a few of them grew thin and haggard for want of food and sleep, having lost both appetite and repose through a relapse in love. Her smile was the same as of yore, ...

— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon

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Words linked to "Spruced up" : dolled up, clothed, clad