a. U.S. rare. [? var. of spander in SPANDER-NEW.] Very good or fine; smart. Also spandy-clean, quite clean.
1848. Bartlett, Dict. Amer., Spandy-clean, very clean; perfectly clean.
1863. Miss Alcott, Hospital Sk., 319 (Cent. Dict.). Thirty gentlemen with spandy clean faces and hands. Ibid. (1868), Little Women, ix. My silk stockings and two pairs of spandy gloves are my comfort.
