cottonocracy colloq.
(kɒt(ə)nˈɒkrəsɪ)
[f. cotton, after aristocracy: see -cracy.]
The class who have risen to wealth through the cotton trade; the cotton-planting or cotton-spinning interest.
| 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain I. ii. 343 To believe that he [Espartero] was the tool of the Manchester Cottonocracy. 1864 Webster, Cottonocracy, the cotton planters, or cotton-planting interest, in the Southern States of the American Union. a 1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches I. 201 The great gulf between the aristocracy and the cottonocracy. |
So ˈcottonoˌcrat, nonce-wd. [cf. aristocrat: see -crat], a member of the cottonocracy; a cotton-lord.
| 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain II. 616 One little white slave of a Manchester cottonocrat. |