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Cotton

noun

Soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state. Synonyms: cotton fiber, cotton wool.

Fabric woven from cotton fibers.

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers. Synonym: cotton plant.

Thread made of cotton fibers.

verb

Take a liking to.

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"Cotton" Quotes from Famous Books

... very feeble child, and could only with great difficulty be persuaded to retain his hold of the slender thread which bound him to existence. He was rubbed with whisky, and wrapped in cotton, and given mare's milk to drink, and God knows what not, and the Colonel swore a round oath of paternal delight when at last the infant stopped gasping in that distressing way and began to breathe like other human beings. The mother, ...

— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... were called early next morning by agreement, and after a breakfast corresponding with the evening meal they were supplied with peasant costume—blue blouse, knit cap and cotton trousers; and being further equipped with a lantern, hatchet and substantial lunch, they set out for the chateau. The walk was a delightful scramble through the neglected old woods for perhaps half a mile, when a seemingly impenetrable thicket barred ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

... moment she looked very picturesque with her black skirt turned up from the bottom and pinned about her waist, displaying an expanse of light-blue petticoat. Her blouse was a simple thing in spotless white cotton, with a black ...

— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum

... half-a-crown apiece. It reminded me too of the rugged old Lancashire commercial blood that was in him—blood that only shewed itself on the rarest and greatest of occasions—the blood of his grandfather, the Manchester cotton-spinner, who founded the fortunes of his house. Sir Anthony knew less about cotton than he did about ballistics and had never sat at a desk in a business office for an hour in his life; but now and again the inherited instinct to put high impulses on a ...

— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... cloak with a French hood, and a high-crowned hat. Such habiliments, admitting of little variety and less ornament, found no favour in the eyes of those who returned from foreign courts with the king, and therefore a change was gradually effected. The simple gown of wool and cotton gave place to loose and flowing draperies of silk and satin; the stiff neckerchief was removed to display fair shoulders and voluptuous breasts; the hat was bedecked by feathers of rare plumage and rich colour; the cloaks changed hues from sad to gay; the hoods being of "yellow ...

— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy

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