vegetable wool
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vegetable wool
First recorded in 1880–85
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He then showed her the vegetable wool and vegetable hair he had collected, and told her where they grew.
From Foul Play by Charles Reade
And yet both Africa and America made cotton cloth from the vegetable wool long before we knew of it otherwise than as a traveller's wonder.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
This was because of the 'vested interests' in wool and silk, which combined to keep out the vegetable wool from general use.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
This was the vegetable wool of the ancients, which many learned authorities have identified with the byssus, in bandages of cloth made from which the old Egyptians wrapped their mummies.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
The war between the States caused hardly more suffering than the blockade which cut off the spinners of Manchester from the vegetable wool which supplied them the means of living.
From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
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