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coonskin

[koon-skin] / ˈkunˌskɪn /
NOUN
coonskin hat
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It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Mom cut a faux fur coat into a Davy Crockett coonskin cap that I wore defending the Alamo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2019

Mogis remembers Hynes — back in an era when the singer dressed in cardigans and a coonskin cap — asking if there were any cool spots in Omaha to freestyle rap.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2018

What appears to be Daniel Boone’s mythical coonskin cap 56.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2016

I didn’t have a big coonskin to add to my collection.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls


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