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  • noun Plural form of cowpath.

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Examples

  • It was about paving the cowpaths of people expressing their human relationships via hyperlinks, which is a different thing.

    Portable contact lists and the case against XFN | FactoryCity 2008

  • The organization of this collection is presented in four categories: places, moments, people, and cowpaths.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The organization of this collection is presented in four categories: places, moments, people, and cowpaths.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Boston Streets 2007

  • Aha, now there's another metaphor to be use for a future post - cowpaths!

    Do Purple Cows graze on gRaSS? 2006

  • Boston in its oldest parts was laid out not on a grid but on a pattern, it was said, of ancient cowpaths, widened by Puritan footsteps and then paved in cobblestones.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • Boston in its oldest parts was laid out not on a grid but on a pattern, it was said, of ancient cowpaths, widened by Puritan footsteps and then paved in cobblestones.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • I can just picture his waning years, furiously biking along the dung strewn cowpaths of Crawford, much the same as tricky Dicky took his sad lonely walks down the beach at San Clemente…….

    Think Progress » “I’ll be dead when they get it right.” 2006

  • Odd clusters and strays of Negroes wandered the back roads and cowpaths from Schenectady to Jackson.

    Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987

  • "We'd better go back to the cowpaths of our fathers."

    Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • The cowpaths of the Catskills, and we all know the mountains are riddled by 'em, didn't keep Rip Van Winkle awake, and I'll wager Mr. Whitechoker here a year's board that there isn't a man in his congregation who can sleep a half-hour -- much less twenty years -- with Broadway within hearing distance.

    Coffee and Repartee John Kendrick Bangs 1892

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