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Bristol

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Bris·tol  (brstl)
1. A city of southwest England west of London. It has been an important trading center since the 12th century. Population: 420,000.
2. A city of central Connecticut north of Waterbury. Its clockmaking industry dates from 1790. Population: 61,200.
Bristol [ˈbrɪstəl]
n
1. (Placename) City of. a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop.: 407 992 (1991)
2. (Placename) City of. a unitary authority in SW England, created in 1996 from part of Avon county. Pop.: 380 615 (2001). Area: 110 sq. km (42 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Bristol - an industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon
England - a division of the United Kingdom
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Bristol [ˈbrɪstəl] N Bristol board → cartulina f
see also shipshape


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Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
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I had many melancholy hours at the Bath after the company was gone; for though I went to Bristol sometime for the disposing my effects, and for recruits of money, yet I chose to come back to Bath for my residence, because being on good terms with the woman in whose house I lodged in the summer, I found that during the winter I lived rather cheaper there than I could do anywhere else.
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context
The tortoise--as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience--besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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