Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Roman shoemaker who with his brother Saint Crispinian sought to spread Christianity and was martyred.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shoemaker: a familiar name, used in allusion to Crispin or Crispinus, the patron saint of the craft. Specifically
  • noun A member of the shoemakers' trade-union called the Knights of St. Crispin. - st Crispin's day, October 25th.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
  • noun A member of a union or association of shoemakers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A male given name.
  • proper noun A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint (brother of Crispinian); patron saint of cobblers and tanners.
  • noun humorous, dated A shoemaker.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun patron saint of shoemakers; he and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century)

Etymologies

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Latin Crispinus, derivative of the Roman family name Crispus "curly".

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