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cordwainer.

A shoemaker.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A shoemaker.

    archaic · countable
  2. A worker in cordwain leather.

    countable
  3. A leather from Córdoba.

    countable · uncountable
  4. A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company.

    countable
Where this word comes from

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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