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Webster 1913 Edition

Cordwain

Cord′wain

(k?rd′w?n)
,
Noun.
[OE.
cordewan
,
cordian
, OF.
cordoan
,
cordouan
, fr. Sp.
cordoban
. See
Cordovan
.]
A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.
Buskins he wore of costliest
cordwain
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cordwain

CORDWAIN

,
Noun.
Spanish leather; goatskin tanned and dressed.

Definition 2024

cordwain

cordwain

English

Noun

cordwain ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cordwains)

  1. A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.

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Etymology

From cordovan, from Córdova ‎(“a Spanish town”), borrowing from Spanish Córdoba.

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