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cordwainer
A cordwainer () is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade can be contrasted with the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers to repairing shoes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What is a Cordwainer? )〕 This usage distinction is not universally observed, as the word ''cobbler'' is widely used in American English for tradespersons who make or repair shoes. A major British dictionary says that the word ''cordwainer'' is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, ''the Cordwainers' Company''"; but its definition of ''cobbler'' mentions only mending,〔 reflecting the older distinction.
==Etymology==
The term ''cordwainer'' entered English as ''cordewaner(e)'', from the Anglo-Norman ''cordewaner'' (from Old French ''cordoanier'', ''-ouanier'', ''-uennier'', etc.), and initially denoted a worker in cordwain or cordovan, the leather historically produced in Moorish Córdoba, Spain in the Middle Ages, as well as, more narrowly, a shoemaker. The earliest attestation in English is a reference to “Randolf se cordewan()”, ''ca.'' 1100.〔〔 According to the ''OED'', the term is now considered obsolete except where it persists in the name of a trade-guild or company, or where otherwise employed by trade unions.〔
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