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Definition of Coonskin cap
1. Noun. A raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back.
Definition of Coonskin cap
1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) Headwear made of a pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, often associated with the iconic imagery of such American frontiersmen as Davy Crockett. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coonskin Cap
Literary usage of Coonskin cap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introductory Third Reader by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix (1916)
"He wore a coonskin cap and moccasins. But Daniel Boone is not an Indian name;
and the frank open face under the coonskin cap is not an Indian face; ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1913)
"But a Tennessee man can have a university education, lead a highly intellectual
existence, without taking the coonskin cap off of the head of his spirit or ..."
3. The Talbot Regime: Or, The First Half Century of the Talbot Settlement, by Charles Oakes Zaccheus Ermatinger (1904)
"The straw hat for summer, the coonskin cap for winter—in fact all clothes for
both bed and body were home-made. .For tea the fragrant spicewood and aromatic ..."
4. Steps in English, Composition Rhetoric: Composition-rhetoric by Thomas Charles Blaisdell (1906)
"Original Improved had on his head a large coonskin wore a coonskin cap and a pair
The lad was very small but The lad was very small, ..."
5. The Scalp Hunters, Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid (1851)
"... a stylishness about the fringing of the cape and leggings; and a jauntiness
in the set of that coonskin cap, that shows the wearer to be not altogether ..."
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