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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cotton
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a silk/cotton/velvet etc dress
▪ Ellie chose a green silk dress.
cotton bud
cotton candy
cotton gin
cotton wool
▪ She put some disinfectant on a piece of cotton wool and dabbed it on her cheek.
cotton/silk/synthetic etc fabric
▪ printed cotton fabric
cotton/steel/paper etc mill
▪ an old Victorian cotton mill
cotton/woollen/silk etc cloth
▪ a dress of the finest silk cloth
leather/pleated/cotton etc skirt
▪ a green velvet skirt
mercerized cotton
the corn/cotton/wheat belt (=where corn/cotton etc is grown)
▪ Western Australia's wheat belt
woollen/cotton/nylon socks
▪ Cotton socks are better for your feet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ The idea of Jim Morrison in a pair of black cotton slacks doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?
▪ He wore a black cotton shirt, tan shorts, and no shoes.
▪ She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp.
▪ With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
▪ Soldiers had brought in a lean youth in black cotton pajamas who looked like any peasant.
▪ The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
▪ She wore a black cotton frock with a very full skirt and frilly lace-edged petticoat underneath it, just showing.
blue
▪ I saw Peter wearing a pastel blue cotton sweater, sheer and delicate-a very fine sweater.
▪ Nora chose a blue cotton dress with lots of tiny buttons covered in maroon imitation silk.
▪ The cast is resting in a navy blue cotton sling.
▪ He selected a blue cotton shirt and a pair of light wool slacks for Mariana.
▪ The typical leisure wear at the ryokan is a blue and white cotton robe known as a yukata provided by the management.
▪ Laying one hand on the pale blue cotton lining of his sleeping-bag, she stroked it.
fine
▪ Most of his shirts were fine Sea-Island cotton.
▪ Designer ties and fine cotton or silk shirts complement the clothes, together with a full range of accessories including handmade Artioli shoes.
▪ Much more suitable is a fine cotton or cotton-and-polyester thread.
▪ By fine, I mean 30s cotton, fine as sewing cotton and indeed you can use sewing cotton if you wish.
▪ One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.
▪ For summer, very fine cotton, called voile, is extremely pleasant.
▪ The sample of cloth you sent is fine cotton.
▪ She settled herself on the carpet and the fine cotton was stacked beside her.
light
▪ She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
▪ She was about fifty years old, with a moon face and pixie hairdo, wearing a light cotton kimono.
▪ Both are lighter than cotton but neither are as durable, nor as watertight.
▪ You are on a globe that looks like a crystal ball or a marble in a light bed of cotton wool.
▪ A light cotton jacket hung over the back of her chair.
▪ Musette Light cotton bag with a long strap, used for the food and drink handed up at feeding stations.
pure
▪ Printing on pure white cotton was disastrous.
▪ Also recently available from Madeira Threads is a fine, pure 100% cotton for crochet, lace and other croft work.
▪ Your sample is quite safe to use, being of pure cotton.
▪ A delectably cool camisole and a pair of pure, white cotton pants.
▪ B Pure cotton vests proved very popular last summer, so here they are again in a new range of seasonal shades.
▪ Now, the shirt comes in a choice of 30 colours, and is made from 12 miles of pure cotton.
raw
▪ Because raw cotton is an inflammable material, mills had to be made fireproof either in whole or inpart.
▪ Thus the raw materials of cotton and wool and the power of coal could be moved freely and cheaply.
red
▪ A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.
soft
▪ On the other hand, don't expect a nice, soft cotton feel.
▪ Clad in soft cotton kimonos and sandals, guests wander the flagstone walkways on their way to open-air hot tubs.
▪ Tomorrow he would tell his wife to put out a shirt of softer cotton.
▪ She wanted only soft, old cotton clothes.
▪ Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
▪ Instead his mouth pressed against the soft cotton, tracing the outline of her body and making her shudder.
thin
▪ The very thin cotton called voile is excellent when pleated.
▪ They keep their legs slightly apart so as not ro bruise the boils under their too short dresses and thin cotton underpants.
▪ The thin cotton pyjamas could not conceal his aroused state.
▪ I prefer to make my own, using thin cotton string.
▪ His touch seemed to burn her through the thin cotton of her white blouse.
▪ The thin cotton of his pyjamas did nothing to cushion the discomfort of the wicker scraping his bony body.
▪ Her pyjamas are made of thin translucent cotton.
white
▪ Printing on pure white cotton was disastrous.
▪ Pure white cotton is, however, highly desirable for the evening.
▪ Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
▪ D Mens t-shirt in white cotton jersey, generously cut and decorated with a primitive fish motif.
▪ Lisle probably. White cotton lisle.
▪ Meadow pipits, commonest of upland birds, negotiated undulating flight paths over white tufts of cotton grass.
▪ A white cotton Mondrian laundry bag will set a guest back $ 60.
■ NOUN
bud
▪ Use a cotton bud to blend the colours together, so there are no hard lines.
▪ Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
▪ Remove any blobs with a damp cotton bud.
▪ Use a cotton bud to carefully blend away edges into foundation so there is no hard edge.
▪ She licks the tip of a cotton bud and begins to comb her eyebrows.
candy
▪ Making more cotton candy requires buying a new, bigger machine.
cloth
▪ If you're feeling really adventurous try making your own flags using dowelling and cotton cloth or strong paper.
▪ Rub spots with an equal amount of toothpaste and baking soda on a damp cotton cloth.
▪ You need some tiny scraps of cotton cloth, some clean, firm glue and a small damp cloth.
▪ Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
crop
▪ Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss, would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
▪ When the cotton crop failed or when prices dropped because it was too abundant, blacks almost literally starved.
▪ The impact of these problems on the cotton crop looks to be severe.
dress
▪ Ruth wore the pale lavender cotton dress which Mrs Carson had given her.
▪ I settle on a simple cotton dress, black, and a pair of dangling earrings.
▪ Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
▪ She was wearing a pale green cotton dress.
▪ Maria was wearing a simple cotton dress and sandals.
▪ With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
▪ The other girls are carrying purses and wearing seersucker and madras cotton blouses or printed cotton dresses and penny loafers.
fabric
▪ Folkweave A loosely-woven cotton fabric, using coarse yarn, often with stripes.
▪ Plain-weave polyester and cotton fabrics are also used as linings.
farmer
▪ For maximum effectiveness, weed killers and fertilizers should be applied now, says Glenn Hester, a Hidalgo County cotton farmer.
▪ In a typical year, Valley cotton farmers would be in the fields now, applying weed killer and preparing the land.
field
▪ The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
▪ We were five miles out of Sabinal in the cotton fields and grape vineyards.
▪ These farm-worker children weed cotton fields, pick lettuce and cantaloupe and climb rickety ladders in cherry and apple orchards.
gin
▪ Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793..
▪ Eli Whitney, famous for the cotton gin, also developed mass production techniques for muskets.
goods
▪ Busy tourist shops sell quality leather goods, carpets and strikingly cheap cotton goods.
industry
▪ Preston's experience was in many ways typical of the other old market towns that had been overwhelmed by the cotton industry.
▪ Stimulated by technological progress, the cotton industry expanded more and more.
▪ During the boom which followed the end of World War I, Hooley became involved in trading shares in the cotton industry.
▪ The cotton industry was virtually destroyed in 1968 when the bollworm and tobacco budworm became resistant to all available insecticides.
▪ He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten.
▪ In Lancashire the steam-powered cotton industry had created a form of society that was very different from anything that had gone before.
▪ It was based on numerous small workshops rather than upon the large factories that characterized the Lancashire cotton industry.
jacket
▪ A waxed cotton jacket, ideal for country walks and worth £47, will go to eight winners of our fourth prizes.
▪ The collar on my cotton jacket pulled at my throat, but I continued.
▪ A light cotton jacket hung over the back of her chair.
▪ I was leaning for concealment against a light pole, my cotton jacket crumpling the paper messages taped to its base.
▪ He was wearing a red ski balaclava, a dark cotton jacket and tracksuit bottoms.
▪ For waterproof clothing, when weight is not a problem, some people still like waxed cotton jackets.
▪ He also wore a khaki-green cotton jacket, brown jeans or chinos and trainers.
▪ I felt the cuffs of the cotton jackets hanging in the cupboard, smoothed the scrupulously scruffy trousers.
jersey
▪ D Mens t-shirt in white cotton jersey, generously cut and decorated with a primitive fish motif.
▪ Shorts from £7.95 Skirty shorts with a ribbed, elasticated waistband and hip pockets. 100% cotton jersey, machine washable.
▪ Linen/cotton mix jacket £66, cotton jersey t-shirt £26 and bleached white jeans £52.
▪ Top A neat fitting top with a flattering neckline and self-covered buttons down the front. 100% cotton jersey, machine washable.
mill
▪ The next stop was Bury in Lancashire, where home was a disused cotton mill.
▪ In California it was the cotton mill.
▪ Then came Mr Jedidiah Strutt, who built a cotton mill on the Derwent and shortly afterwards three more.
▪ The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills.
▪ They also destroyed roads, power lines, and sugar and cotton mills over a wide area.
▪ Ralph had no interest in business matters, which was evident at the cotton mill this morning.
▪ Before the coming of the cotton mill there were few opportunities for children to make a steady monetary contribution to family earnings.
▪ The ward hums the way I beard a cotton mill hum once when the football team played a high school in California.
sheet
▪ Trent didn't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance.
▪ She hung old cotton sheets around her Sunday dress, her pleated terylene skirt.
▪ The owners showed me the hotel rooms, which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets.
▪ The bed was far too low for ease of nursing and so large that its cotton sheets didn't fit.
shirt
▪ She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
▪ He wore a black cotton shirt, tan shorts, and no shoes.
▪ She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
▪ Palm trees sway on the backs of countless cotton shirts.
▪ There are several cotton shirts on the market which are practical yet stylish enough to wear in the city.
▪ At the front, inside the thick cotton shirt, was the flat protuberance of the packet.
▪ But there are no chinos, cotton shirts or Shetland sweaters here.
skirt
▪ When she came back, Alice had changed into a cotton skirt and a white blouse that was too small for her.
▪ I am wearing a full circle-cut cotton skirt, my first, which I have made in home economics class.
▪ She picked up a cotton skirt patterned with roses.
▪ She was wearing a white blouse, frilled with lace at collar and cuffs, and a long, mid-grey cotton skirt.
▪ She held a plump baby of about seven months on her hip, and a toddler clutched at her cotton skirt.
▪ She was wearing a long white cotton skirt, flat shoes, and hand-knit cotton top in pale pink.
▪ She slipped out of her cotton skirt and the enormously full paper nylon petticoat she wore beneath it.
wool
▪ You are on a globe that looks like a crystal ball or a marble in a light bed of cotton wool.
▪ It looked just like a sailor's hammock made out of toilet paper, cotton wool and string.
▪ Sometimes people would wince more from the coldness of the alcohol on the cotton wool than they would from the needle.
▪ My fingers seemed to be made of cotton wool.
▪ The silence was like wet cotton wool pressed into their ears.
▪ The ears can be made out of felt and a small tail can be made of cotton wool.
▪ She used to carry pads of cotton wool to dress the wounds from the chafing.
▪ Keep your toes apart with cotton wool, tissues or rubber toe-spacers.
■ VERB
grow
▪ Cotton Wool garden: Mustard and cress seeds grow readily on damp cotton wool.
▪ Its landowners use much of their subsidized water to grow subsidized cotton.
▪ More people began growing cotton and their plantations be-came bigger and bigger.
▪ The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills.
▪ He grew up picking cotton in the same fields at the age of eight.
▪ There was nothing inherently wrong with that idea, either-the bay and the Delta normally can use all the growing cotton.
pick
▪ Or we would go to the coast to pick cotton, which is really exhausting.
▪ As a result of this, more and more farmworkers were needed to plant and pick the cotton.
▪ She picked up a cotton skirt patterned with roses.
▪ He grew up picking cotton in the same fields at the age of eight.
▪ With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
▪ But I knew nothing about picking cotton.
▪ Hundreds of thousands of peasants still plant and pick cotton on collective farms but no one pays their salaries anymore.
▪ So they were seen as machines to pick cotton and plow fields.
use
▪ If you're feeling really adventurous try making your own flags using dowelling and cotton cloth or strong paper.
▪ There was nothing inherently wrong with that idea, either-the bay and the Delta normally can use all the growing cotton.
▪ By fine, I mean 30s cotton, fine as sewing cotton and indeed you can use sewing cotton if you wish.
▪ You can use this appliqué cotton table linen year after year Full-length tablecloths always look sumptuous and extravagant.
▪ Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
▪ I prefer to make my own, using thin cotton string.
▪ To soften around the eyes, blend the edges of the eye shadow. Use a cotton wool bud for this.
▪ It is used on cotton, silk and man-made fabrics.
wear
▪ Ruth wore the pale lavender cotton dress which Mrs Carson had given her.
▪ I saw Peter wearing a pastel blue cotton sweater, sheer and delicate-a very fine sweater.
▪ He wore a loose cotton blouson buttoned at the waist over a blue tee-shirt and faded khaki slacks.
▪ Everyone else in the camp wore much-darned wool and cotton stockings.
▪ She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
▪ The assemblers actually wear white cotton gloves to protect the guitars before they are sealed in airtight bags, packed and shipped.
▪ Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
corn/wool/cotton etc exchange
▪ It's a long time since you could go to your local corn exchange and see international artists for ten bob.
▪ March cotton rose 2. 04 cents to 84. 50 cents a pound on the New York Cotton Exchange.
▪ Numerous former corn exchanges have been converted into shopping arcades accordingly.
cotton picker/fruit picker etc
wrap sb (up) in cotton wool
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ fields of cotton and corn
▪ The towels are 100% cotton.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A white cotton Mondrian laundry bag will set a guest back $ 60.
▪ And it was for cotton that the first real factories came into being.
▪ In addition, water-intensive crops such as rice should be abandoned in favour of wheat and cotton.
▪ The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
▪ This enabled Whessoe to stamp its by now ubiquitously accepted name on the conduit that supplied vital water to the cotton city.
▪ We were five miles out of Sabinal in the cotton fields and grape vineyards.
▪ You're like a sea of cotton wool.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cotton

Cotton \Cot"ton\ (k[o^]t"t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.]

  1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

  2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

  3. Cloth made of cotton.

    Note: Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick.

    Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2.

    Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel.

    Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney.

    Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants ( Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton.

    Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse ( Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops.

    Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum.

    Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton.

    Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs ( Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton.

    Cotton scale (Zo["o]l.), a species of bark louse ( Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant.

    Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant.

    Cotton stainer (Zo["o]l.), a species of hemipterous insect ( Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug.

    Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle.

    Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton.

    Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills.

    Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state.

    Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect ( Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.

Cotton

Cotton \Cot"ton\, v. i.

  1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [Obs.]

    It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty nap.
    --Family of Love.

  2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.]

    New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?
    --Lyly.

  3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. [Colloq.]

    A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.
    --Swift.

    Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?
    --Sir W. Scott.

  4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [Slang]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cotton

late 13c., from Old French coton (12c.), ultimately (via Provençal, Italian, or Old Spanish) from Arabic qutn, a word perhaps of Egyptian origin. Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732. Also ultimately from the Arabic word, Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Provençal coton, Italian cotone, Spanish algodon, Portuguese algodão. Cotton gin is recorded from 1794 (see gin (n.2)).

cotton

"to get on with" someone (usually with to), 1560s, perhaps from Welsh cytuno "consent, agree." But perhaps also a metaphor from cloth finishing and thus from cotton (n.). Related: Cottoned; cottoning.

Wiktionary
cotton

Etymology 1

  1. Made of cotton. n. 1 A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth. 2 ''Gossypium'', a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber. 3 (context textiles English) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant. 4 (context countable English) An item of clothing made from cotton. Etymology 2

    v

  2. To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

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WordNet
cotton

  1. n. silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state [syn: cotton wool]

  2. fabric woven from cotton fibers [syn: cotton cloth]

  3. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers [syn: cotton plant]

  4. thread made of cotton fibers

cotton

v. take a liking to; "cotton to something"

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Gazetteer
Cotton -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 6614
Housing Units (2000): 3085
Land area (2000): 636.638532 sq. miles (1648.886159 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.305494 sq. miles (13.741165 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 641.944026 sq. miles (1662.627324 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.296951 N, 98.356706 W
Headwords:
Cotton
Cotton, OK
Cotton County
Cotton County, OK
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Wikipedia
Cotton (disambiguation)

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that can be spun and woven into a textile of the same name.

Cotton may also refer to:

Cotton (motorcycle)

The Cotton Motorcycle Company, was a British motorcycle manufacturer of 11a Bristol Road, Gloucester, and was founded by Frank Willoughby Cotton in 1918. F.W. presided over the company until his retirement in 1953. The company was reconstituted as E. Cotton (Motorcycles) Ltd, and traded until 1980. The marque was later resurrected in the late 1990s by a business which manufactured replicas of earlier machines.

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the family of Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will tend to increase the dispersal of the seeds.

The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds.

The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and the Indus Valley Civilization in Indian subcontinent between 6000 BC and 5000 BC. Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

Current estimates for world production are about 25 million tonnes or 110 million bales annually, accounting for 2.5% of the world's arable land. China is the world's largest producer of cotton, but most of this is used domestically. The United States has been the largest exporter for many years. In the United States, cotton is usually measured in bales, which measure approximately and weigh .

Cotton (series)

The series is a line of shoot 'em up video game software developed by Success with a long history of releases both in arcades and on home video game consoles. With the series debuting in 1991, the Cotton games have helped to establish the visual style of shoot 'em ups sometimes called cute 'em up. Instead of warships and battlefields typical of most shoot 'em ups, Cotton games put players in control of a witch riding on a broom and tasks them with fighting through magical haunted kingdoms. Cotton games have appeared on a variety of consoles including the PC Engine, the Super Famicom, the Mega Drive, the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and the Dreamcast. There is also a pachinko game featuring Cotton available for the PlayStation 2. Cotton appears as a hidden character in the Nintendo DS game Rondo of Swords.

Cotton (album)

Cotton is a jazz studio album released in 1986 by the Japanese freelance jazz fusion drummer Akira Jimbo.

Cotton (surname)

Cotton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Usage examples of "cotton".

New Orleans, simply clothed in homespun cotton striped red and blue, abysmally poor and surrounded by swarms of children who all seemed to bear names like Nono and Vev6 and Bibi, cheerfully selling powdered file and alligator hides and going away again without bothering, like the Americans did, to sample the delights of the big city.

Nitroso Dye-stuffs -- Nitro Dye-stuffs -- Azo Dye-stuffs -- Substantive Cotton Dye-stuffs -- Azoxystilbene Dye-stuffs -- Hydrazones -- Ketoneimides -- Triphenylmethane Dye-stuffs -- Rosolic Acid Dye-stuffs -- Xanthene Dye-stuffs -- Xanthone Dye-stuffs -- Flavones -- Oxyketone Dye-stuffs -- Quinoline and Acridine Dye-stuffs -- Quinonimide or Diphenylamine Dye-stuffs -- The Azine Group: Eurhodines, Safranines and Indulines -- Eurhodines -- Safranines -- Quinoxalines -- Indigo -- Dye-stuffs of Unknown Constitution -- Sulphur or Sulphine Dye stuffs -- Development of the Artificial Dye-stuff Industry -- The Natural Dye-stuffs -- Mineral Colours -- Index.

It was made out of a blend of cotton and silk, an airy material that Agate favored.

Cotton seed is dipped in a fungicide and planted in a Mississippi field sprayed with aldicarb, one of the most toxic chemicals applied in the United States.

Drapes of white cotton, embroidered in what is known as Broderie Anglaise, were looped back against the posts.

The cotton dress with its broderie anglaise trimmings was made specially for this holiday, but the dressmaker had not calculated on the spell of cold weather.

He kept an eye on things while Justin was away, but his special interest was several hundred arpents of land given over to the cultivation of Sea Island cotton, a departure from the sugarcane that was the staple crop of the plantation.

On West Auer Avenue, a man in a gray University of Michigan football T-shirt, gray cotton shorts, and flip-flops was washing a dark blue Toyota Camry in his short double-wheel-track driveway.

To make pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid for a quarter of an hour, then washed in cold water and dried.

She had isopropyl alcohol, peroxide, cotton balls, Band-Aids, Q-Tips, zinc ointment, Bacitracin, an Ace bandage, and a small bottle of Mercurochrome.

With cotton, wool, wheat and mountains rich in minerals, Shensi should have been prosperous but was not, owing to opium-smoking and banditry, but fundamentally to lack of good communications.

The maids in the city house had somehow never had it, but perhaps that was because of the way Father had treated them, brushing against them sometimes in the hallway, when he thought no one was looking, using the serving spoon so btessinp - j i that the upper part of his arm gently touched the curve of a breast beneath a white bib and gray cotton.

Probably no blockaders have yet been stationed off the port, and it is a good place to run out cotton.

Montfaucon, who on account of his diligence and the extent of his researches is great authority, wrote a dissertation to prove that charta bombycine, cotton paper, was discovered in the empire of the east toward the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century.

The vet prescribed antibiotics and showed Linda how to clean the eye with a cotton ball and a solution of boric acid.