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单词 Cottonopolis
释义 Cottonopolis|kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs|
[f. cotton, after metropolis.]
‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.
1851E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’.1886B. 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.1937W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 95 Cottonopolis was fixed in Lancashire.
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