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kempt

[ kempt ]

adjective

  1. neatly or tidily kept:

    a kempt little cottage.

  2. combed, as hair.


kempt

/ ɛ /

adjective

  1. (of hair) tidy; combed See also unkempt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of kempt1

First recorded before 1050; 1925–30 kempt fordef 1; Middle English kempte, kembyd; Old English cemd-, past participle of cemban “to comb”; comb, unkempt
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of kempt1

C20: back formation from unkempt; originally past participle of dialect kemb to comb
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Comey, perfectly kempt in a suit jacket and collared shirt, accessorized with a grin.

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It was swank, and packed with a diverse crowd of about 200 that skewed young — lots of beards, both kempt and unkempt, and beanies galore.

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Even less kempt, Walton Goggins gets to play an angry, avenging figure, given to oratory and mind games.

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Perhaps not, she thinks, perhaps it is a personality phenomenon: the real Yolanda resurrecting on an August afternoon above the kempt green lawns of this private facility.

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As he wrote, “reality is always more complex than invention: less kempt, cruder, less rounded out”.

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