Bristol fashion
Americanadjective
adverb
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nautical clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
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in good order; efficiently arranged
Etymology
Origin of Bristol fashion
1830–40; after Bristol, England
Example Sentences
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“Well, looks like everything’s mostly shipshape and Bristol fashion, luvvy,” said Miss Forcible.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
"Then hasten back, for I'll warrant we've a fine job to make all shipshape and Bristol fashion."
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Nice street; not many stores, but what there was was ship-shape and Bristol fashion; folks personable and well-appearin'; I was pleased with East Cyrus.
From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
The whole settlement turned out, Iosefo outdoing himself, and the king butting in with an address, and everything shipshape and Bristol fashion, as sailors say.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
Lloyd, whose energy was only equalled by his capability; and he very soon had things put shipshape, the wool bales fired out of the shed, and everything done Bristol fashion, as they say at sea.
From Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Moulin, Louis Eug?ne du
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