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currier

The definition of a currier is a person who applies finishing techniques, including coloring, to leather after it is tanned.

(noun)

A person who gives color to leather and otherwise finishes it is an example of a currier.

See currier in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person who curries tanned leather

Origin: ME curriour < OFr corier < L coriarius < corium, hide (see corium): infl. by assoc. with curry

See currier in American Heritage Dictionary 4

cur·ri·er

noun

One that prepares tanned hides for use.

Origin: Middle English curreiour, from Old French, from Latin coriārius, from corium, leather; see sker-¹ in Indo-European roots.

Cur·ri·er

American lithographer who with his business partner James Merritt Ives produced more than 7,000 different prints illustrating American life and tradition, each signed “Currier & Ives.”

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