cordwainer
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English
Etymology
From Middle English cordewainer, cordewaner, from Anglo-Norman cordewaner, from Old French cordoan (“(leather) of Cordova”). See also cordovan, itself borrowed from Spanish Córdoba.
Noun
cordwainer (countable and uncountable, plural cordwainers)
- (countable) A shoemaker.
- (countable) A worker in cordwain.
- A leather from Córdoba.
- (countable) A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordwainer.