Archaic a shoemaker, orig. one who worked in cordovan leather
Origin of cordwainer
Middle English cordwaner from Old French cordoanier: see cordwaincordwainer
cord·wainerWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural cordwainers)
- a shoemaker
- a worker in cordwain, a leather from Córdoba.
- a member of the Cordwainers livery company
Origin
From Anglo-Norman cordewaner, from Old French cordoan (“(leather) of Cordova”). See also cordovan, a later borrowing directly from Spanish.
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