Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
cordwainer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A cordwainer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
shoemaker .
Etymologies
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See cordwainer.
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Examples
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The association of shoemakers (cordiners in Scotland) with St Crispin, their patron saint, remained so strong that, at least until the early twentieth century, a shoemaker was popularly called a “Crispin” and collectively “sons of Crispin”.
Sons of Crispin: The St Crispin Lodges of Edinburgh and Scotland - Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024
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