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Definition of Coonskins
1. coonskin [n] - See also: coonskin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coonskins
Literary usage of Coonskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Log-cabins, coonskins, and hard cider were taken as symbols of the party, and to
show its identification with the poorest and humblest of the people : and ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1853)
"Next day. he returned wilh'bU whole band, his blankets stuffed with coonskins.
" American man, I pay now ;" with this he began counting ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"... How do, Thomas ; show me goods ; I take four yard calico, three coonskins for
yard, pay you by'm by—to-morrow ;" received his goods and left. ..."
4. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"Log cabins, coonskins, and hard cider were taken as symbols of the party, and to
show its identification with the poorest and humblest of the people; ..."
5. The Law of Electricity: A Treatise on the Rules of the Law Relating to by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1891)
"In another case the plaintiff, a merchant of St. Louis, had a lot of coonskins
stored with a dealer in New York city. Pursuant to plaintiffs request, ..."
6. A History of Political Parties in the United States: Being an Account of the by James Herron Hopkins (1900)
"William Henry Harrison was made their ~ standard-bearer. He was an upright, plain
old man; he lived in a log cabin decorated with coonskins, ..."
7. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner (1920)
"The log cabins, the cider and the coonskins were the symbols of the triumph of
Middle Western ideas, and were carried with misgivings by the merchants, ..."
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