spruce
意味
- 小ぎれいな,きちんとした,気のきいた
- …を小ぎれいにする,きちんとする《+名+up,+up+名》
- 身なりを整える,めかす《+up》
- トウヒ,エゾマツ
- その材木
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.