English
got-up
Got-up comes from English up ‘to dress [extravagantly]’.
- English1500–presentup‘to dress [extravagantly]’
- Englishearliest quotation 1899got-up
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentup‘to dress [extravagantly]’
- Englishearliest quotation 1899got-up
Earliest quotation: 1899, Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness: “His starched collars and got-up shirt-fronts were achievements of…”
Linked words
through English up ‘to dress [extravagantly]’
Today it means
adj Of clothing, styled extravagantly.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English up / got-up