cordwainer








noun Archaic.

  1. a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
  2. shoemaker; cobbler.

noun

  1. archaic a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
n.

“shoemaker, leatherworker,” c.1100, from Anglo-French cordewaner, from Old French cordoan “(leather) of Cordova,” the town in Spain whose leather was favored by the upper class for shoes. Cf. cordovan, a later borrowing directly from Spanish.

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