cotton lord, cotton-lord
A wealthy cotton-manufacturer; a magnate of the cotton trade.
| 1823 Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 399 Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing! 1847 J. W. Croker in C. Papers (1884) III. xxv. 102 Helping to raise a gigantic fortune for some cotton lord at Manchester. 1862 T. Guthrie Pract. Sympathy (1863) 15 Our religion..looks on the soul of the poorest cotton-worker to be as precious as the soul of the wealthiest cotton-lord. |