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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

... do with delicacies. A list of our articles of clothing would only invite the modern boy's scorn. On no pretext did we wear socks or shoes till we had passed our tenth year. In the cold weather a second cotton tunic over the first one sufficed. It never entered our heads to consider ourselves ill-off for that reason. It was only when old Niyamat, the tailor, would forget to put a pocket into one of our tunics that we complained, for no boy has yet been born so poor as not to have the ...

— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore

... twins hadn't always taken the furniture to pieces, and mother is so fussy about anything of that sort. She finally suggested the winter bedroom for Atlantic's incarceration, as it has nothing in it but a huge coal-stove enveloped in a somewhat awe-inspiring cotton sheet. I put in a comfortable low chair, a checkerboard, and some books, fixing the time limit at half an hour. By the way, Mary, that's such a pretty idea of yours to leave the door unlocked, and tell the children to come out of their own accord whenever they ...

— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... still, you can hear it easily. There is a kind of kink in nature which breeds the law that very small interruptions will mar your pleasure in good music, but nothing less than a dynamite explosion can drown the bad; even cotton wool in your ears or the wax employed by the sailors of Ulysses will not ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... was endowed with a spirit of resistance—a gift frequently fatal to its possessor, for it breaks where another disposition would have bent; the result was that blows did not become deadened upon her as upon what might be termed the cotton-wadded feelings of Maria Theresa. Her heart rebounded at each attack, and therefore, whenever she was attacked, even in a manner that almost stunned her, she returned blow for blow to any one imprudent enough ...

— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... America," a prophecy since three times fulfilled; and admits that "the new omnipotence of the steam engine is hewing aside quite other mountains than the physical," i.e. bridging the gulf between races and binding men to men. He had found, since writing Sartor, that dear cotton and slow trains do not help one nearer to God, freedom, ...

— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

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