cottonary

English

Etymology

From cotton +‎ -ary.

Adjective

cottonary (not comparable)

(obsolete, nonce word) Relating to, or composed of, cotton.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
  cottonary and woolly pillows

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cottonary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)