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Definition of Cornhusks
1. cornhusk [n] - See also: cornhusk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornhusks
Literary usage of Cornhusks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"Instead, they smoke cigarettes made of foreign tobacco, wrapped in paper or
cornhusks. Usually the smoke is inhaled. Chewing, too, has been introduced very ..."
2. Folk Art Projects North America by Yvonne Despard (1997)
"Take four cornhusks and lay them on top of each other so the edges all meet at the
... Slide it up between the four cornhusks to the tie forming the head. ..."
3. Women in American History by Grace Humpherey (1919)
"For lack of medical supplies the surgeons were using bandages of cornhusks.
Her supplies quickly unloaded, Clara Barton hurried out to revive the wounded, ..."
4. East and West: A Story of New-born Ohio by Edward Everett Hale (1892)
"... wrapped in cornhusks, was the necklace in question. How under the heavens had
it come there? This question, in one and another form, spoken aloud or ..."
5. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"Roughness in South Carolina denotes shucks or cornhusks, on account, probably,
of the roughness of the serrated blades. Roundabout 'is in America almost ..."
6. The Idea of Fertilization in the Culture of the Pueblo Indians by Herman Karl Haeberlin (1916)
"Again the maids shoot either at a bundle of cornhusks, at gaming wheels, or at
a bundle of squash, melon, and bean vines. The variation in which they throw ..."
7. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"The plumage of the wild duck made downy pillows; turkey feathers convenient
dusters; and cornhusks excellent mattresses, besides mats to cleanse soiled ..."
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