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

Derived Forms

• ˈcordˌwainery, noun

Other Words From

• cordwain·er·y noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cordwainer¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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