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kempt

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

Origin:
bef. 1050; ME; OE cemd- ptp. of cemban to comb 1 ; see unkempt
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kempt   (kěmpt)   
adj.  Tidy; trim: a nicely kempt beard.

[Back-formation from unkempt.]
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