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Bristol|ˈbrɪstəl|
In 1 Brycgstów, 3–5 Brigestou, Brycstoue, 4–7 Bristow.
1. A city of England upon the Wiltshire or Lower Avon, famous since early times for its maritime trade and manufactures, and giving its name to various commercial and natural products.
2. a. Short for ‘Bristol-stone’: see 4.
1618N. Field Amends Ladies i. i, To the unskilful owners eyes, alike The Bristol [v.r. Bristow] sparkles as the diamond. 1818Edin. Even. Cour. 22 Oct. (Jam.) Studded with what was once the vogue, bristow.
b. Applied to a type of porcelain or pottery similar to Delft ware manufactured in Bristol.
1776J. Wedgwood Let. 24 Jan. (1965) 190, I believe this to be true of nearly all our present compositions in England and France, except the Bristol. 1784H. Walpole Descr. Strawberry-Hill 13 A cup and saucer, white with green festoons, of Bristol porcelaine. 1787Bristol Gaz. Jan. in W. Chaffers Marks & Monogr. (1863) 138 (Advt.), Bristol Pottery, Temple Backs. 1869Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 66 There is no Bristol, no Plymouth, scarce any characteristic Bow. 1873H. Owen Two Cent. Ceramic Art Bristol xiii. 328 Previous to the year 1859, Bristol delftware was unknown to collectors. 1900F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. vii. 91 Many specimens of Bristol porcelain are unmarked. 1969V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Only Matter of Time 28 Four milk white cups and saucers with a blue and gold band, which Mrs. Bazeley was prepared to describe as late Bristol, though..they might be early New Hall.
c. Applied to an opaque coloured (esp. blue) or white glass manufactured in Bristol.
1880Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) II. 292 An exquisite pair of Bristol glass candlesticks. 1882Ibid. 393 Smelling bottles of fine Bristol glass. 1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 36 Bristol glass candlesticks. 1948M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xxiv. 283 Oh, is that the glass Lawrence drank from?.. They're old Bristol. 1966J. Gloag Sentence of Life vii. 73 He glanced back at the bristol blue lamp.
3. pl. (with lower-case initial). Rhyming slang [ellipt. for Bristol Cities = titties (titty3)]. The breasts.
1961in Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1962R. Cook Crust on its Uppers ii. 30 These slag birds used to go trotting upstairs.., arses wagging and bristols going. 1969J. Leasor They don't make them like that any More vi. 194 She was in her early twenties, with a wonderful pair of bristols; I could see their outline, firm and round, against her dress. 1969Observer 2 Feb. 28/3 The main point (or should it be points?) of this programme is Miss Barbara Windsor's bristols which are..well-developed.
4. attrib., as Bristol-board, a kind of pasteboard with a smooth surface; Bristol-brick, a siliceous material made in the form of a brick, used for cleaning cutlery; Bristol cream, the proprietary name of a type of sherry (see quot. 1959); cf. Bristol milk; Bristol-diamond, -gem, -stone, a kind of transparent rock-crystal found in the Clifton limestone near Bristol, resembling the diamond in brilliancy; also attrib.; Bristol-fashion (Naut.), in good order; Bristol milk (see quots.); Bristol Non-such, a plant, Lychnis Chalcedonica; † Bristol-red, a dye; Bristol-water, the water of warm springs at Clifton near Bristol, used medicinally.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 63, 2 Do. Royal *Bristol Bds. 1883Harper's Mag. 861/2 Mr. Evers painted..portraits on..Bristol-board.
1886Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 June 580 *Bristol Cream. John Harvey & Sons, Denmark Street, Bristol..Sherry. 1924J. Buchan Three Hostages iv. 57, I had a glass of the Bristol Cream for which the club was famous. 1959W. James Word-Bk. Wine 32 Bristol Cream, an oloroso sherry blended by Harvey's of Bristol from wines imported from several sources in Spain.
1596Lodge Wits Miserie 33 A counterfeit chain..*Bristow diamonds. 1624Gataker Transubst. 65 Bastard pearles, Bristow diamonds, and glasse bugles. 1662S. P. Acc. Latitude Men in Phenix II. 517 To distinguish between a true Gem and a Bristol Diamond. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 215 Rock crystal..also known as ‘Bristol’..diamond, is also used by watch jewellers.
1840R. Dana Bef. Mast xx. 61 Everything on board ‘ship-shape and *Bristol fashion’. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Bristol fashion and shipshape. Said when Bristol was in its palmy commercial days..and its shipping was all in proper good order.
1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. ii. iii. (N.) The cap..Was set with *Bristol jems.
1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 78 Good store of *Bristoll milk, strong wines and waters. 1662Fuller Worthies, Bristol (D.) ‘Bristol Milk:’ this metaphorical Milk, whereby Xeres or Sherry Sack is intended. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. iii. (D.) A rich beverage made of the best Spanish wine, and celebrated..as Bristol milk.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 102 London Tuft, Sweet John, Sweet William; *Bristow Nonsuch.
1551Will in Peacock N.-W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) s.v., One kyrtyll of *bristowe read whiche were her mothers.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 78 Diamond..Chrystall, *Bristoll stones. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) IV. 353 A good-humoured lass..who wore as many diamonds as if they had been Bristol Stones.
1739Byrom Remains (1856) II. i. 243, I wish I could drink a glass of *Bristol water in uncle Josiah's company. 1817T. J. Pettigrew Mem. J. C. Lettsom III. 314 Bristol Water is most proper for the patient's common drink.
5. attrib. in ordinary sense; also sometimes with reference to ‘Bristol diamonds’.
1651Cleveland Poems 32 You that dim Jewells with your Bristoll-sense. |