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cow town

noun

  1. a small town, especially one in a cattle-raising district in the western U.S. or Canada.
  2. a town or city, especially in the western U.S. or Canada, from which cattle are shipped to market.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cow town1

First recorded in 1880–85
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In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.

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The family moved from Arizona to Germany to England before settling in Davenport, a tiny cow town in eastern Washington.

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While Green Bay was fawning and bowing to the demands of a diva, the Broncos got a quarterback capable of changing everything for the long-suffering football team in our dusty old cow town.

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She grew up in a literal cow town, Fort Worth, where she was a football cheerleader, and her activism took root at her small Quaker college, Earlham.

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Bat Masterson and a land agent make a Kansas cow town safe for wheat farmers.

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