cottonocracyn.
/kɒt(ə)nˈɒkrəsi/ colloquial.
The class who have risen to wealth through the cotton trade; the cotton-planting or cotton-spinning interest.
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1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 343 To believe that he [sc. Espartero] was the tool of the Manchester cottonocracy.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cottonocracy, the cotton planters, or cotton-planting interest, in the Southern States of the American Union.
a1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches I. 201 The great gulf between the aristocracy and the cottonocracy.
Derivatives
ˈcottonoˌcrat n. [compare aristocrat n.] a member of the cottonocracy; a cotton-lord.Apparently an isolated use.
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1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. viii. 616 One little white slave of a Manchester cottonocrat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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