Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trapper: so called in the Rocky Mountains.
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Examples
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Freemans Sporting Club, a downtown Manhattan-based lifestyle brand with a modern mountain-man aesthetic, uses labels that display the distance in miles from their store to the place where each garment is made.
Fashion's New (Old) Thing Robin Kawakami 2011
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It is unclear where Iannone might be now, but police have said he loved the outdoors, attended re-enactments of 19th-century mountain-man encampments and talked about living in Montana or Wyoming.
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It is unclear where Iannone might be now, but police have said he loved the outdoors, attended re-enactments of 19th-century mountain-man encampments, and talked about living in Montana or Wyoming.
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BLOCK: He's pretty striking, with tattoos inked up and down his arms and a long, thick, mountain-man kind of beard, gold streaked with gray.
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You know, city boy needs to see his mountain-man side.
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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“Maybe going at that bear really was what you needed to see if you had that mountain-man side in you after all.”
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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Dressed in blue jeans and a button-down shirt open at the collar, Gore looks younger than his 61 years: the mountain-man beard he grew in the wake of the Florida recount debacle of 2000 is long gone, and the extra weight, which hung on several more years, is nowhere in evidence.
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You know, city boy needs to see his mountain-man side.
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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Heads of unkempt hair as big as Afros melding into long sideburns into mustaches into mountain-man beards into industrial strength chest and arm hair under their leather vests into hairy knuckles on handlebars.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Heads of unkempt hair as big as Afros melding into long sideburns into mustaches into mountain-man beards into industrial strength chest and arm hair under their leather vests into hairy knuckles on handlebars.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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