coonskin

Example Sentences

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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

One assignment, during the Davy Crockett craze that swept the United States on the heels of a Walt Disney mini-series, was to paint eight-foot-wide coonskin caps.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2017

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016

In one sketch Lester comes out with a plaid shirt, a coonskin cap, and a meat cleaver.

From Slate • May 10, 2015

You were only two years old, and you had on that little coonskin hat with the fur around it and a little plaid jacket to match, and I said, “This is my son.”

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones