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Cottonopolis|kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs| [f. cotton, after metropolis.] ‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.
1851E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’. 1886B. Quaritch Catal. of MSS. 3503 It..deserves to be printed in Manchester..as a memorial of the departed worthy who was one of the glories of Cottonopolis. 1937W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 95 Cottonopolis was fixed in Lancashire. |