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
As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have to define him in terms of the mossback.
From Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield
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