Meaning of cottonocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States prior to the Civil War.

US, historical, no-plural

Examples

“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.”

“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!”

“The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe⟳ that the opium trade⟳ was delaying its arrival.”

CEFR level