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Brewer's: Cordwainer
Not a twister of cord, but a worker in leather. Our word is the French cordouannier (a maker or worker of cordouan); the former a corruption of Cordovanier (a worker in Cordovan leather).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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