corn shuck

Historical Examples

• The most practical substitute they could find for straw was the corn-shuck.

  The Stronghold

  Miriam Haynie

• It don't matter a corn-shuck to us where we fight, so as it's soon.

  True to the Old Flag

  G. A. Henty

• We had been wearing coal-scuttle bonnets of plaited straw, trimmed with corn-shuck rosettes.

  Dixie After the War

  Myrta Lockett Avary

• One corn-shuck hat, made for a "Confederate bride" of the Neck, was trimmed with flowers made of small white feathers.

  The Stronghold

  Miriam Haynie

• The men would take meal dough and fit it into a corn-shuck, tying the shucks tightly.

  History of Morgan's Cavalry

  Basil W. Duke