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
The tanner, currier, shoemaker, the manufacturer, with his swift-flying shuttles, the operator tending his looms and spinning-jennies, the tailor with his sewing-machines, the gunsmith, the harness-maker, the blacksmith,—all trades and occupations have been employed.
From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton
He settled in Sturbridge, as a farmer, also carrying on his trade of tanner and currier.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
Moslings, moz′lingz, n.pl. the thin shavings taken off by the currier in dressing skins.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
"I will believe in it when I have been shown the currier who made the wind-bags which Ulysses on his homeward voyage received from �olus."
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
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