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cottonocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From cotton + -o- + -cracy.

Meanings

  1. (US, historical, no-plural) A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
    • Make a question between our nation and England about fifty desarters^([sic]), and if the ministers of the day only dared to talk of fighting, the members of all the manufactoren^([sic]) towns in England, the cottonocracy of Great Britain, would desert too! 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and human nature, page 23:
    • The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe that the opium trade was delaying its arrival. 1996, Bill Schwarz, The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History:
    • The whole school argue political or national economy as a party question: it is Cottonocracy versus Cornocracy — the nation is to be crucified between them. 1840, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 7, page 1027: