cow country
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cow country
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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In the early 1980s, H. Gary Morse, a onetime ad man, took over his father’s mobile home park in an unlovely patch of Florida cow country.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Thirty years ago Hog Island was legitimate cow country.
From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2021
Then – clank, clank – you’re back in cow country, meandering over and alongside delightful rivers.
From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2015
Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time in Arizona cow country, posed his mustang hero against a sun-drenched panorama of hills and prairie.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he don't do it, he passes on to where there's room for his kind—an' the cow country don't miss him.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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