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Definition: CORDWAIN |
CORDWAINNoun1. 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. |
Date "CORDWAIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CORDWAIN |
| English words defined with "CORDWAIN": Cordwainer ♦ Spanish leather. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "CORDWAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Welsh | cordwal (Cordovan leather). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CORDWAIN": cordwainer, cordwaineries, cordwainers, cordwainery, cordwains. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-n-o-r-w" | |
-2 letters: anodic, candor, coward, inroad, inward, nordic, onward, ordain, rancid. | |
-3 letters: acorn, acrid, adorn, adown, aroid, caird, cairn, canid, coria, crowd, crown, danio, daric, dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, drown, indow, nadir, narco, naric, nicad, noria, orcin, racon, radio, radon, ranid, rawin, rowan. | |
-4 letters: acid, airn, arco, arid, cadi, caid, cain, card, carn, ciao, cion. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: cordwains. | |
+2 letters: cordwainer. | |
+3 letters: becowarding, cordwainers, cordwainery, woodcarving. | |
+4 letters: cowardliness, woodcarvings. | |
+5 letters: cordwaineries. | |
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