Wiktionary
alt. (context chiefly US English) headwear made of a pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, often associated with the iconic imagery of such American frontiersman as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett. n. (context chiefly US English) headwear made of a pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, often associated with the iconic imagery of such American frontiersman as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett.
WordNet
n. a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back [syn: coonskin]
Wikipedia
A coonskin cap is a hat fashioned from the skin and fur of a raccoon. The original coonskin cap consisted of the entire skin of the raccoon including its head and tail. Beginning as traditional Native American headgear, coonskin caps became associated with American and Canadian frontiersmen of the 18th and 19th centuries, and were highly popular among boys in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in the 1950s.
Usage examples of "coonskin cap".
However, now the freak with the coonskin cap who had been driving the Cadillac was driving the Buick.
He wore a deerskin hunting shirt dyed black, but, in place of a coonskin cap with the tail hanging down, a hat.
There an enterprising merchant from Corsica had imported three of the large china chamber pots containing on their sides portraits of Franklin, and on their insides glazed representations of the coonskin cap.
There was a 1958-style coonskin cap, the kind popularized by Fess Parker in the Disney movie about Davy Crockett, perched on its head.
Frank grinned and arced a slow-motion swing toward his teasing pal, but in a flash Chet was on his feet, twirling his coonskin cap.
Their belts were beaded in red and white or blue and white, and most of them wore cloth caps, only a few having hats and one a coonskin cap.
He was a narrow, high-shouldered man, rail-thin yet wiry, and he wore a dirty buckskin hunting shirt and leggings with a bedraggled coonskin cap.
Across the top, over a logo depicting a rifle, fiddle and coonskin cap, arched the words “.
Dressed in dungarees and a coonskin cap, the sergeant was working in his small flower garden.
No coonskin cap, though-the idea of a dead raccoon on his head seemed ghoulish, even in VR.
And this woman without any clothes on, naked as the day she was born except for a coonskin cap, came running at us from the southwest .
And this woman without any clothes on, naked as the day she was born except for a coonskin cap, came running at us from the southwest.
When they finally got that coonskin cap off of me, they had to bury it.
The backwoods dandy made the best of his situation, with Indian-style moccasins heavily decorated with colored beads, thigh-length deerskin leggings fringed at the seams, a long loose deerskin hunting shirt, and a coonskin cap with a dangling tail.