Crossword-Solution: CORDWAIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cordwain | n. | 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. |
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| SPANISH leather | 1 answer |
| Leather. | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with CORDWAIN (5)
The person I mean was a buxom dame of about thirty, her fingers loaded with many a silver ring, and three or four of gold; her ankles liberally displayed from under her numerous blue, white, and scarlet; short petticoats, and attired in hose of the finest and whitest lamb’s-wool, which arose from shoes of Spanish cordwain, fastened with silver buckles.
Another old kind of leather, but whose name is no longer used, was _cordwain_, a Spanish leather for the making of shoes, which took its name from Cordova in Spain.
The gown she pat upon her love Was o’ the dainty green, His hose was o’ the saft, saft silk, His shoon o’ the cordwain fine.
Jamieson’s version of _Sir Patrick Spence_:-- ‘For I brought as much white money As will gain my men and me.’ 17.4: ‘cordwain,’ Cordovan (Spanish) leather.
Sir Thopas is described thus:— “His hair, his beard was like safroun, That to his girdle raught (reached) adown, His shoon of cordewane.” We have only to turn cordwain into cordovan, to see that this was a specially excellent leather, imported in early times from Cordova, in Spain, to make “kid-boots.” In fact, the cordwainer was the West-end boot-maker.