Definition of Cordwein
Cord"wain (k?rd"w?n), n. [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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a leather from Córdoba originally of tanned goatskin later of horsehide.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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