cordwainer

== 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) (archaic, countable) A shoemaker. Coordinate term: cobbler (countable) A worker in cordwain leather. A leather from Córdoba. (countable) A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company. For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordwainer. ==== Related terms ==== cordwaining