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mossback

[maws-bak, mos-] / ˈmɔsˌbæk, ˈmɒs- /
NOUN
old-fashioned person
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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To the passengers, most railroaders are mossback operators who neglect service while engaging in a never-ending round of raising fares, chopping schedules and eliminating branch lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

And if he can, is he to be an aristocrat, a landlord, a captain of industry, and to bear rule over the mossback?

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




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