Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broker who deals in cotton.
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Examples
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His affected calm had dropped from his fat carcase like a shed cloak, and his genteel accent was fraying at the edges: he was rasping "Nawth" like a cotton-broker, and dropping "r" s right and left.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Incidentally, an over-zealous policeman had arrested, on charge of murder done in a far southern State, a horribly indignant Ajmir cotton-broker, who was explaining himself to a Mr Strickland on Delhi platform, while E23 was paddling through byways into the locked heart of Delhi city.
Kim 2003
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His affected calm had dropped from his fat carcase like a shed cloak, and his genteel accent was fraying at the edges: he was rasping "Nawth" like a cotton-broker, and dropping "r" s right and left.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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His affected calm had dropped from his fat carcase like a shed cloak, and his genteel accent was fraying at the edges: he was rasping "Nawth" like a cotton-broker, and dropping "r" s right and left.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Mr. Noble encountered the cotton-broker, in the way of business, a few days afterward; but his aversion to the unclean conversation of the man induced him to conceal his vexation under the veil of common courtesy.
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Failing in this, the exasperated cotton-broker swore that he would have his heart's blood, for he knew the sly, smooth-spoken Yankee was at the bottom of it.
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"Four thousand five hundred," screamed the cotton-broker.
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It would be impossible to describe the anxiety Alfred had endured from the time Loo Loo became the property of the cotton-broker until he heard of her escape.
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The cotton-broker noticed the action, but silently touched his hat, and passed with a significant smile on his uncomely countenance.
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An engineer or a cotton-broker would see it differently; but then neither of them would be capable of that impressionistic touch about the heads of the elephants.
Collected Essays 1900
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