- Poor Man's Cotton
- POOR MAN'S COTTONA commercial variety of Upland cotton from California, having a staple barely one inch and a lint yield of 34 to 36 per cent. Similar to Peterkin.
Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.
Poor Man's Cotton
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