In some specified manner.
English fashion.
A small number of hyphenated compounds include this ending, such as Bristol-fashion, in good order (after the British seaport of Bristol, now almost always as part of the set phrase all shipshape and Bristol-fashion); parrot-fashion, reciting something mechanically, without thought or understanding, as a parrot says words it has learned; and spoon-fashion, of a couple lying snugly together head to foot, as a pair of spoons might be fitted together.
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