cotton plantation

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• the Cotton Plantation State — «хлопковый штат». Алабама находится в центре хлопкового пояса Юга США. Отсюда и другой устаревший вариант его прозвища the Cotton Plantation State «штат хлопковых плантаций» …   Словарь топонимов США

• Plantation — Plan*ta tion, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.] 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.] [1913 Webster] 2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• cotton-picking — (adj.) as a deprecatory term first recorded in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but a similar noun meaning contemptible person dates to around 1919, perhaps with racist overtones that have faded over the years. Before mechanization, cotton picking was the… …   Etymology dictionary

• Cotton Belt (region) — For the railroad called Cotton Belt, see St. Louis Southwestern Railway. Cotton Belt is a term applied to a region of the southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century.[1]… …   Wikipedia

• Cotton production in Ethiopia — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Medical supplies for the front, including bales of cotton …   Wikipedia

• cotton — [[t]kɒ̱t(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ cottons, cottoning, cottoned 1) N MASS: oft N n Cotton is a type of cloth made from soft fibres from a particular plant. ...a cotton shirt. 2) N UNCOUNT Cotton is a plant which is grown in warm countries and which produces… …   English dictionary

• plantation — Synonyms and related words: anchorage, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, clump, collective farm, colonization, cotton plantation, croft, crop, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, empeoplement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Cotton Press (Tarboro, North Carolina) — Cotton Press U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

• Cotton-Eyed Joe — also known as Cotton Eye Joe Published pre 1861 Cotton Eyed Joe is a popular American folk song known at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. In the Roud… …   Wikipedia

• COTTON (J.) — COTTON JOHN (1584 1652) Le pasteur puritain qui allait devenir la plus grande figure de «la Plantation du Seigneur» en Nouvelle Angleterre est né en 1584. Le mouvement qui milite pour que l’Église d’Angleterre extirpe d’elle même les «reliques du …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Cotton Club (New York City) — Cotton Club redirects here. For other uses, see Cotton Club (disambiguation). The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem, New York City that operated during Prohibition that included jazz music. While the club featured many of the greatest …   Wikipedia