cotton wool
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noun
cotton in its raw state, as on the boll or gathered but unprocessed.
British. absorbent cotton.
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Origin of cotton wool
First recorded in 1590–1600
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Examples from the Web for cotton wool
Historical Examples of cotton wool
That,” she said more or less after Sterne, “is a cotton-wool story.
The ChildrenAlice Meynell
Round about the shrapnel burst in little puffs like cotton-wool.
One Man's Initiation--1917John Dos Passos
I tried to intercept it by a large respirator of cotton-wool.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2John Tyndall
This man, Buchanan, that is over us at present, he is no better than a bit of cotton-wool.
DaisyElizabeth Wetherell
I know—the oil from that old reading-lamp and this cotton-wool.
cotton wool
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