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

At his winery visitors almost invariably asked him about Crockett, and he was sure to direct them to the gift shop, where coonskin caps were for sale.

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