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
Here was nothing: the stove was alight, the smoke going up in a Christian manner; all was shipshape and Bristol fashion.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
"We've come aboard, sir, all shipshape and Bristol fashion."
From The Pirate Shark by Arting, Fred J.
There was no foolish gilding and gingerbread work, to take the eye of landsmen and passengers, but everything was "ship-shape and Bristol fashion."
From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry
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