| 单词 | king cotton |
| 释义 | > as lemmasKing Cotton King Cotton n. now historical (a personification of) cotton as a crop or industry, used to indicate its economic importance, esp. in the southern United States; cf. sense 10c. ΚΠ 1855 D. Christy Cotton is King 186 King Cotton cares not whether he employs slaves or freemen. It is the cotton, not the slaves, upon which his throne is based. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. iii. 360 If industry and commerce were sick, King Cotton also was growing continually sicker. 2014 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 May (Travel section) f01 We pass scattered cotton fields, not nearly as many as there were a just a few decades ago, when King Cotton ruled the South. < as lemmas |
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