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Definition of Sprucest
1. spruce [adj] - See also: spruce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprucest
Literary usage of Sprucest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gull's Hornbook by Thomas Dekker, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1904)
"have smelt out of the musty sheets of an old almanack, that, at one time or other,
even he that jets upon the neatest and sprucest leather ; even he that ..."
2. The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia by Thomas Dekker, John Nott (1812)
"For I have smelt out of the musty sheets of an old almanack, that, at one time
or other, even he that *jets upon the neatest and sprucest leather ; even he ..."
3. France by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine, Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Guizot (François) (1898)
"... I will go and kiss and embrace as if he were the sprucest prince and gentleman
of France; and, should he be in want of a bed and unable to find one ..."
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