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 Cotto’nian Library.Cotyt’to. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cottonopolis.
 
Manchester, the great centre of cotton manufactures.   1
        “His friends thought he would have preferred the busy life of Cottonopolis to the out-of-way county of Cornwall.”—Newspaper paragraph, January, 1886.
 


 Cotto’nian Library.Cotyt’to. 

 
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