There is a scene in the movie where I wear a coonskin hat and buckskin clothes and all that stuff when I first get to town.
In 1956 my parents bought me a Davy Crockett costume complete with powder horn and coonskin cap.
In short order, kids throughout the country were nagging their parents for the mock coonskin caps that coincidentally began to appear in stores.
Billy gets excited because this means the price of coonskins will go up and Billy could make a lot of money if he catches a lot of coonskins.
With the money from the coonskins and the prize money from the contest, the family now has enough money to move to town and for the children to have a better education.
Definition of coonskin in US English:
coonskin
nounˈkunskɪnˈko͞onskin
The pelt of a raccoon.
浣熊毛皮
a coonskin hat
Example sentencesExamples
In short order, kids throughout the country were nagging their parents for the mock coonskin caps that coincidentally began to appear in stores.
Billy gets excited because this means the price of coonskins will go up and Billy could make a lot of money if he catches a lot of coonskins.
In 1956 my parents bought me a Davy Crockett costume complete with powder horn and coonskin cap.
There is a scene in the movie where I wear a coonskin hat and buckskin clothes and all that stuff when I first get to town.
With the money from the coonskins and the prize money from the contest, the family now has enough money to move to town and for the children to have a better education.