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  • 11piece goods — noun merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard • Syn: ↑yard goods • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑merchandise, ↑ware, ↑product * * * …

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  • 12Cotton, Nathaniel — (1705 1788)    Born in London, the son of a merchant, he studied medicine in Holland and was practicing in St. Albans around 1740, where he remained until his death. He kept Collegium Insanorum, a private asylum, in which the poet Cowper was… …

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  • 13cotton bud — (British) small piece of absorbent material attached to a stick, cotton swab, Q tip (registered trademark) …

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  • 14cotton swab — small piece of absorbent material attached to a stick, Q tip (registered trademark) …

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  • 15Lancashire Cotton Famine — An 1862 newspaper illustration showing people waiting in line for food and coal tickets at a district Provident Society office The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as The Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–1865), was a depression in the… …

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  • 16Naturally colored cotton — is cotton that has been bred to have colors other than the yellowish off white typical of modern commercial cotton fibers. Colors grown include red, green and several shades of brown.[1] The cotton s natural color does not fade. Yields are… …

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  • 17Death Picks Cotton — King of the Hill episode Hank and Cotton s last moment. Episode no …

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  • 18Danielia Cotton — Background information Origin Hopewell, New Jersey Genres Rock …

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  • 19Olive Cotton — at the beach, taken by Max Dupain circa 1930s Olive Cotton (1911 2003) was a pioneering Australian modernist female photographer of the 1930s and 40s working in Sydney. As a female photographer in Australia of that era, she was overlooked and her …

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  • 20Gun cotton — Gun Gun (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which… …

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