ppl. a. a. lit. of a horse.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, xvi. The well-groomed, high-conditioned team … plunged at their collars.
1900. E. H. Cooper, Monk wins, vi. 40. Young men in smart riding suits on well-groomed hacks.
b. of persons: Neat and trim, spick and span, with hair, skin, etc., carefully tended.
1886. [see WELL-TAILORED].
1889. Daily News, 9 Dec., 5/5. He had a well-groomed air, though he seemed carelessly dressed.
1907. H. Wyndham, Flare of Footlights, i. Tables crowded with well-groomed men and pretty women.
Hence Well-groomedness.
1902. D. S. Meldrum, in Blackw. Mag., April, 553/2. The first thing I observed, when he was shown in, was his well-groomedness.
