cordwainer
Meaning
- (archaic, countable) A shoemaker.
- (countable) A worker in cordwain leather.
- (countable, uncountable) A leather from Córdoba.
- (countable) A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company.
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Etymology
In summary
From Middle English cordewainer, cordewaner, from Anglo-Norman cordewaner, from Old French cordoan (“(leather) of Cordova”). See also cordovan, itself borrowed from Spanish Córdoba.
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