ととのえる
to arrange, to adjust
You knock the bundle into correct shape and only then is it fit to be seen. Collar and tie before the speech, and Toto とと says no のえ to the first attempt: ととのえる.
整う ととのう is a thing being in order. 整える is you putting it in order.
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