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cordwainer

[ kawrd-wey-ner ]

noun

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


cordwainer

/ ˈ°ìɔ˻åËŒ·É±ðɪ²ÔÉ™ /

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

  • ˈ³¦´Ç°ù»åËŒ·É²¹¾±²Ô±ð°ù²â, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦´Ç°ù»åw²¹¾±²Ô·±ð°ù·²â noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cordwainer1

1150–1200; Middle English cordewaner < Old French cordewan ( i ) er. See cordwain, -er 2
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People found to be of too low a rank to have an extremely long point could be fined, and "any cordwainer or cobbler within the city of London or within three miles of any part of the same city" was banned from supplying or making them for people of insufficient nobility.

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Lavie: No science fiction writer was ever as weird, as brilliant and as unjustly neglected, perhaps, as Cordwainer Smith.

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After the war, Wheaton and his family moved to New York, where he worked as a shoemaker, then known as a cordwainer, and farmer.

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Others focus on the horror and mystery of islands, such as the world described in Cordwainer Smith’s classic “A Planet Named Shayol,†in which convicts are exposed to a virus that makes them grow extra organs, which are then harvested.

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Mr. Ellison moved to Los Angeles in 1962, aiming to break into the lucrative screenwriting trade, but continued to publish stories and novels, many under assumed names, most notably “Cordwainer Bird.â€

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