mossback

Example Sentences

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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

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

Says Kitchin: "I'm a conservative, but not a mossback."

From Time Magazine Archive

Rausch's six-month rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback.

From Time Magazine Archive

The contrast is between the new farmer and the mossback, for that is a question of men and of their relative efficiency as members of the industrial order.

From Chapters in Rural Progress by Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech)