What is "cordings"

Usage examples of "cordings".

Tiny cordings of silk and gold finished the slashes of his short, padded breeches, and beneath them he wore close-fitting hose and low-topped shoes.

This night she was uniformed as a French hussar with skintight sky-blue breeches that had an intricate pattern of Hungarian lace down the front of the thighs, a plum coloured dolman with blue cuffs and plaited white-silk cordings and a scarlet pelisse edged with black fur.

Molly's eyes darted from a huge Tele funken entertainment console to shelves of antique disk re cordings, their crumbling spines cased in clear plastic, to a wide worktable littered with slabs of silicon.