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cow town

noun

Definition of cow town

as in village

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Recent Examples of cow town What was once just a sleepy little ‘cow town’ in Central California, has now become one of the trendiest wine regions to visit, along with national wine sales that are outperforming the rest of the market. — Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025 If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit. — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024 And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out. — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons. — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023 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. — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023 Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023 Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city. — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021

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Farther south, head to the seaside village of La Parguera, a short boat ride from one of the island's three bioluminescent bays.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
After nearly 14 years representing the 84th District in the Illinois House, the Oswego resident has filed her petition to run for village trustee in her hometown in next spring’s election.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

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Clever and ambitious, Debicki’s snob is itching for an excuse to leave this hamlet for the city.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The gang eventually released its hostages but dug into the tiny nearby hamlet of Bois D’Avril, into which Prince’s foreign ex-special forces flew in September, engaging them in an hours-long firefight.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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