egyptian cotton

1. 1.

   fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton

   Broadercotton

Questions about egyptian cotton

What does egyptian cotton mean?

egyptian cotton means "fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton".

Is egyptian cotton a common word?

egyptian cotton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.