What is "primped"

Usage examples of "primped".

At night she primped more than necessary, in order to make a good impression, and as she joined him downstairs she was rewarded by the way his blue eyes would light up at her appearance.

On such nights, the dingy dwellings of Spittalfields and Whitechapel still seem to belong to the Huguenot silk-weavers, the prim backstreets of Kensington appear eternally Edwardian, and the houses of the Chelsea embankment, primped with gothic trimmings and standing in Sunday finery like a charabanc of ruddy-faced matrons, remain the province of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Paks snorted, then laughed, remembering the militia primped up in velvets and laces.

Floyt asked as Terran notables straightened their sashes and primped their hairdos, cleared their throats and wiped sweat from their palms.