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class up en · VERB
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(informal, transitive) To make more classy or sophisticated
A good looking moose working in their café probably was not her father's idea of classing up the place.
2015, C.A. Portnellus, The Road Home: Book Three of Sparrow Wars in the Garden of Bliss:It [a simple black sheath] was formal, could be classed up with my simple gold hoop earrings, and the neckline barely plunged at all.
2018, Kathy Lyons, Sliding Home:to class up the joint
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