mossback
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In true mossback fashion, he bought a plot of land on a particularly damp section of the island because he loved the rain.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Says Kitchin: "I'm a conservative, but not a mossback."
From Time Magazine Archive
South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rausch's six-month rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long whitish bristles were mingled with them, and the mossback could not help thinking of a little old, old man, with hair that was grizzly-gray, and a face that was half-stupid and half-sad and wistful.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert
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