Cottonopolisn.
/kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs/ ‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.
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Cottonopolis1851
1851 E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in W. Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’.
1886 B. 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.
1937 W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 95 Cottonopolis was fixed in Lancashire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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n.1851- to acknowledge the corn
- to acquire merit
- to acquit a person
- to acquit a person her meed
- to acquit a person his
- to act a part
- to act affirmatively
- to act mean
- to act more —— than the
- to act more —— than the —— etc
- to act more —— than the —— themselves
- to act on
- to act on the defensive
- to act on the offensive
- to act one's age
- to act one's part
- to act out
- to act possum
- to act the fool
- to act the giddy goat
- to act the goat
- to act the lord of the manor
- to act the mouldwarp
- to act the old soldier
- to act the old soldier over a person