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kempt


adjective

  1. neatly or tidily kept: a kempt little cottage.
  2. combed, as hair.

adjective

  1. (of hair) tidy; combedSee also unkempt
adj.

“well-combed, neat,” late 14c., from past tense of dialectal kemb, from Old English cemdan (see unkempt). A rare word after c.1500; any modern use probably is a whimsical back-formation from unkempt.

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