Cottonopolis
(kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs)
[f. cotton, after metropolis.]
‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.
| 1851 E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’. 1886 B. Quaritch Catal. of MSS. 3503 It..deserves to be printed in Manchester..as a memorial of the departed worthy who was one of the glories of Cottonopolis. 1937 W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 95 Cottonopolis was fixed in Lancashire. |