variant of SPICK AND SPAN.

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1614.  Tomkis, Albumazar, II. ii. (1615), D ij b. Of a starke Clowne I shall appeare speck and span Gentleman.

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1767.  S. Paterson, Anoth. Trav., I. 48. I became desirous of seeing one of the last speck-and-span new things.

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1840.  Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk., I. 51. No man stepped out so speck and span … as Major British.

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