[ noun ] a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back <noun.artifact>
coonskin \coonskin\ n. a cap made from the skin of a raccoon, with the tail hanging down the back; -- called also coonskin cap.
Syn: coonskin cap. [WordNet 1.5]
And according to them, that's not the Davy Crockett a generation of Americans knew from the Disney TV series that made the buckskin-clad actor Fess Parker an instant celebrity and prompted millions of youngsters to buy coonskin caps.
But there's never been any doubt about the gender of the Mountaineer, who dresses in tight-fitting buckskin with coonskin cap and moccasins.
Tim Dunigan dons the coonskin cap to star as the "king of the wild frontier."