cotton
/ˈkɑt.n̩/ adjective C2- Made of cotton.
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From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.
I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.”
The prisoner himself is named Edmond Dantès, mate on board the three-master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.”
It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil was poured upon it the ball burned fiercely.
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