currier
noun
a person who dresses and colors leather after it is tanned.
currier
1 American
[kur-ee-er, kuhr-]
/ ˈkɜr i ər, ˈkʌr- /
Currier
2
American
[kur-ee-er, kuhr-]
/ ˈkɜr i ər, ˈkʌr- /
noun
currier
British
/ ˈkʌrɪə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of currier
1350–1400; curry 2 + -er 1 ( def. ); replacing Middle English cur(r)iour, cor(r)iour < Anglo-French < Latin coriārius, equivalent to cori(um) leather + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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“With rice, like in the dog. Currier is what makes the rice currier rice. It’s Curry in German.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
I worked, during my second ten years, as a journeyman tanner and currier; knocked by fate and the boss from shop to shop and from town to town.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
The tanner and currier would strongly favour a tax upon leather, while perfectly willing that hides should be admitted free.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing
The carpenter and joiner, the currier, the shoemaker, the smith and goldsmith, the mason and painter, pursue their occupations before our eyes.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
Our ancestor Hong The-just was a currier by trade; he cut and scraped the skins that were entrusted to him.
From Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures by Unknown
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