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cordwainer

[ kawrd-wey-ner ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
  2. shoemaker; cobbler.


cordwainer

/ ˈkɔːdˌweɪnə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈcordˌwainery, noun
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Other Words From

  • cordwain·er·y noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cordwainer1

1150–1200; Middle English cordewaner < Old French cordewan ( i ) er. See cordwain, -er 2
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Example Sentences

Cordwainer was the old name for "shoemaker," and is still kept in the names of shoemakers' guilds and societies.

"Both equally necessary members of the body corporate," said Henry, whose father had been a cordwainer.

An intelligent cordwainer of this city has invented a bathing shoe to fit the under-toe at Long Branch.

I was an apprentice to a cordwainer, but my indentures were given up before I left England, sir.

"She shall have a good cloak," said he; and he proceeded to inform me that he was a cordwainer.

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