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Bristol fashion

adjective

  1. in good order; trim:

    shipshape and Bristol fashion.

Bristol fashion

adverb

  1. nautical clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
  2. shipshape and Bristol fashion
    in good order; efficiently arranged

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bristol fashion1

1830–40; after Bristol, England

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Example Sentences

On the decks the boatswain piped his cheerful note, and everything came ship-shape and Bristol-fashion for the cruise.

Inside we have a not very successful hallenkirche, three bodies without a clerestory, Bristol-fashion.

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