Manchester, the great centre of cotton manufactures.
“His friends thought he would have preferred the busy life of Cottonopolis to the out-of-way county of Cornwall.”—Newspaper paragraph, January, 1886.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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