Egyptian cotton

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Egyptian cotton

A long-staple fine cotton grown chiefly in northern Africa.

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

cotton plant, cotton - erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

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Known as "Mother's Choice," Under The Nile's certified organic Egyptian cotton collection features clothing, diapers, blankets, and toys.

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Ballard imagines a middle-class insurrection in which the most comfortable members of contemporary London society attempt to destroy the very system they were responsible for creating, transforming their tasteful effects into tools of civil disobedience: "Banners hung from dozens of balconies, sheets of best Egyptian cotton from Peter Jones, gladly sacrificed for the revolution.

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At the Hyatt, wealthy guests coming for the second time have their room keys handed to them by the captain porter and go straight to the suite, where they find sheets spun from Egyptian cotton.

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