Bristol fashion


adjective
  1. in good order; trim: shipshape and Bristol fashion.

Origin of Bristol fashion

1
1830–40; after Bristol, England

Words Nearby Bristol fashion

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How to use Bristol fashion in a sentence

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

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

British Dictionary definitions for Bristol fashion

Bristol fashion

adverb, adjective(postpositive)
  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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