cornhusk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cornhusk
Example Sentences
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They took it in a new direction in the early 1970s when they started selling crafts, cornhusk dolls and dried florals.
From Washington Times • Aug. 10, 2020
Pete Fenson, a bronze medalist for the United States at the 2006 Turin Games, learned the game using cornhusk brooms while growing up in northern Minnesota.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015
Their friends the cornhusk dolls have long since perished . . . their little greenish bodies, stuck to one another by the hair, gradually drying out.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2015
She wipes away Ponijao's freefalling poop with a dried cornhusk and the same quiet efficiency.
From Time • May 6, 2010
Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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