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cottony

[kot-n-ee]

adjective

of or like cotton; soft.

covered with a down or nap resembling cotton.

Origin:
1570–80; cotton + -y¹

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cotton (ˈkɒt^ən)

—n
1.	See also sea-island cotton any of various herbaceous plants and shrubs of the malvaceous genus Gossypium, such as sea-island cotton, cultivated in warm climates for the fibre surrounding the seeds and the oil within the seeds
2.	the soft white downy fibre of these plants: used to manufacture textiles
3.	cotton plants collectively, as a cultivated crop
4.	a. a cloth or thread made from cotton fibres
	b. (as modifier): a cotton dress
5.	any substance, such as kapok (silk cotton), resembling cotton but obtained from other plants

[C14: from Old French coton, from Arabic dialect qutun, from Arabic qutn]

'cottony

—*adj*

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"The huge black clock hand is still at rest but is on the point of making its once-a-minute gesture; that resilient jolt will set a whole world in motion. The clock face will slowly turn away, full of despair, contempt, and boredom, as one by one the iron pillars will start walking past, bearing away the vault of the station like bland atlantes; the platform will begin to move past, carrying off on an unknown journey cigarette butts, used tickets, flecks of sunlight and spittle; a luggage handcart will glide by, its wheels motionless; it will be followed by a news stall hung with seductive magazine covers—photographs of naked, pearl-gray beauties; and people, people, people on the moving platform, themselves moving their feet, yet standing still, striding forward, yet retreating as in an agonizing dream full of incredible effort, nausea, a cottony weakness in one's calves, will surge back, almost falling supine."

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