go-ashoreadj.n.2
/ˈɡəʊəˌʃɔː/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊəˌʃɔr/ Nautical colloquial.
A. adj. (attributive).
Intended for use ashore; esp. designating clothes or articles intended to be worn or used by sailors when ashore (and typically being smarter or of superior quality than those worn or used while at sea). Also: characteristic or typical of life on shore.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [adjective] > characteristic of sailors ashore
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1829 Critic (N.Y.) 14 Feb. 255/1 ‘Come Shakspeare,’ said a rosy faced little midshipman, as he belted his go-ashore dirk around his waist.
1831 J. A. Jones Haverhill II. x. 108 Make my go-ashore shoes shine so that you may see to read a Guinea sarmon by them at twelve o'clock in a pitch-dark night.
1836 N. P. Willis Inklings of Adventure II. 134 Enter a Yankee ‘skipper’... His go-ashore black coat and trowsers..were of costly cloth.
1849 Glasgow Herald 23 Apr. (advt.) The whole effects which belonged to the deceased Neil Robertson, ship carpenter, consisting of tool chest..; also, a chest containing sea and go-ashore clothes, &c. &c.
1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) xi. 164 A sailor will not be likely to interlard his go-ashore talk with clew-lines [etc.].
1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 246 All his go-ashore things were there, laid up with camphor in tissue paper, including his tall hat.
1956 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 84/1 We..tried to get the salt-white from our go-ashore shoes.
1999 Ships Monthly Feb. 43/1 The fourth mate kindly lent me civilian go-ashore clothes.
B. n.2
In plural. Clothes intended to be worn when ashore.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > supplies provisions > clothing, etc., supplied to seamen
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 342 Go ashores, the seamen's best dress.
1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 98 Burnage looked very well in his go-ashores.
1903 J. P. Sturrock Fifes in S. Afr. ii. 20 The decks and booms and rigging were crowded with troopers, all in their go-ashores, booted and spurred, and ready for the fray.
1991 Ships Monthly Apr. 18/2 I..went on a shopping spree—a couple of shirts, a black windjammer and two pairs of snazzy bell-bottomed dungarees, for go-ashores.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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