coonskin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From coon + skin.

My eccentric friend, whom you call Coonskins, is an example. — The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, Herman Melville
Off with thy coonskin, and sweep the populace with thy courtly bow!" — The Reckoning, Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A few negroes and poor whites were at the counter, and Meshach was measuring whiskey out to them by the cheap dram in exchange for coonskins and eggs. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend

coonskin cap

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