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kempt, ppl. a.|kɛm(p)t|
Forms: 1 cemd-, 5 kempte, kembyd, 6 kemmyt, kemt, 5–7 kembed, 4– kempt.
[f. kemb v.]
Of hair or wool: Combed. Also with advs., as well-kempt, etc. Cf. unkempt. Also transf.
c1050Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 387/23 De stuppe stamineo, be cemdan wearpe. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 426 Ȝif a man haue a kempt hed þanne he is a leccherous man. 1513Douglas æneis x. xiv. 19 Hys weyll kemmyt berd. 1601Holland Pliny I. 228 A distaffe, drest and trimmed with kembed wool. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney iv. (1869) 30 Carefully kempt tresses. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virg. æneid 307 His kempt beard adown his bosom spread. 1905Daily Chron. 15 June 4/4 The little girls wear clean pinafores; their hair is neatly kempt. 1929R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. xii. 398 The street paving was badly worn, but looked marvellously smooth and kempt to Winterbourne. 1946S. Spender European Witness i. i. 9 Gardens as well kempt as a short hair-cut. 1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence i. 1 The kempt yellow gravel of drives. a1954F. B. Young Wistanslow (1956) 113 A spacious expanse of greensward, smooth and kempt as the ancient turf of an Oxford college. 1975Times 21 July 10/7 Artificially beautified people looking kempt and highly coloured for the hairdressers' and beauticians' trade fair. |