Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Cotton-lord
or king, subs. (common).—A wealthy cotton manufacturer.
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1883. HAWLEY SMART, Hard Lines, ch. xix. ‘But, Mr. Fulsby [a Manchester man], the country will never … do away with the army because you COTTON LORDS consider it unnecessary.’
