noun Archaic.
- a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
- shoemaker; cobbler.
noun
- archaic a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
“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.