cottonocracy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From cotton + -o- + -cracy.
Usage
- American usage