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Definition of Sprucer
1. spruce [adj] - See also: spruce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprucer
Literary usage of Sprucer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth (1820)
"and comfort, of which sprucer and more modern buildings are often destitute.
A white wicker gate opened into a small green court, the grass neatly mown, ..."
2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"... and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast,
many a better- trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house. ..."
3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"... and hardly a straight line ; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet
outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house. ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"... Mr '13 sprucer. Munsey. 49: 273-7. My. '13. Toss-up. Harp. W. 57: 10+ Jl. '4.
'13. England, Minnie Throop. Analysis of the crisis cycle. ..."
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