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Jun 29, 2006
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cordwainer (KORD-way-nuhr) noun A shoemaker. [From Old French cordewan, from Spanish cordobán (from Cordoba).] Originally, a cordwainer was a shoemaker who worked with cordwain (or cordovan), a supple leather made from goatskin. The leather was named after Cordoba, a city in south Spain famed for this soft leather.
The term mostly survives as a surname, and also in the fancy names of
the various guilds of shoemakers, for example:
"Luke Pollock, a cordwainer, is the owner of The English Leather Shop
in Horton."
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