cotton wool vs fabric

cotton wool

noun
  • Raw fibers of cotton before being processed. 

  • Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc. 

fabric

noun
  • A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth. 

  • Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed. 

  • The framework underlying a structure. 

  • The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock. 

  • The texture of a cloth. 

verb
  • To cover with fabric. 

How often have the words cotton wool and fabric occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )