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cotton ceilings

cotton ceilings is the plural of cotton ceiling.

Meaning of cotton ceiling

Noun

cotton ceiling (plural cotton ceilings)

  1. A social barrier to consideration (by cisgender women) of transgender women as viable sexual partners.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, ceiling.
    • On rough nights, however, the wind that finds its way beneath the rafters keeps drawing up and down the cotton ceiling in sudden gusts, and if the fastenings of your canopy are not very artfully contrived, one end or other of it is sure to give way […]1872, Mrs. Edward Millett, An Australian Parsonage; Or, The Settler and the Savage, page 56

Questions about cotton ceilings

What is cotton ceilings the plural of?
Cotton ceilings is the plural of cotton ceiling.

Words near cotton ceilings in the dictionary

  1. cotton candy planet
  2. cotton card
  3. cotton cards
  4. Cotton Cay
  5. cotton ceiling
  6. cotton ceilings
  7. Cotton County
  8. Cotton effect
  9. Cotton effects
  10. cotton fever
  11. cotton fish

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