noun
- the pelts or fur of raccoons, especially when used for making clothing or hats
Usage: historical
Examples
- The frontiersman wore a cap made from coonskins.
- Coonskins were valuable trade items in colonial America.
- The museum displayed coonskins used by early settlers.
- Trappers would sell coonskins at the trading post.
- Davy Crockett was famous for wearing a coonskin cap.
- The fur trader collected coonskins throughout the winter.