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

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

And though he politely but consistently refused to wear one for their cameras, he was always happy to sign a Fess Parker wine label, bearing its familiar trademark: a tiny picture of a coonskin cap.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2010

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