bog cotton
noun
another name for cotton grass
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How to use bog cotton in a sentence
She saw his shock of white, bog-cotton hair, his face of a Jesuit priest and his voice of a Welsh dissenting minister.
The Boy with Wings | Berta RuckSure wasn't he out on the bog the len'th of the day, since early this mornin', he and little Joe, gadrin' her the bog-cotton?
Strangers at Lisconnel | Barlow JaneThe Ceanabhan, pronounced Kanovan, is the bog cotton, and the Monadan is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains.
A Book of Irish Verse | William Butler Yeats
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