Crossword clues for cordovan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cordovan \Cor"do*van\ (k[^o]r"d[-o]*v[a^]n), n. [Sp. cordoban, fr. Cordova, or Cordoba, in Spain. Cf. Cordwain.] Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "fine Spanish leather," from adjective Cordovan, from Spanish cordovan (modern cordoban), from cordovano (adj.) "of Cordova," the Spanish city, former capital of Moorish Spain; a later adoption of the same word that became cordwain (see cordwainer). The city name is from Phoenician qorteb "oil press."
Wiktionary
a. oxblood (the color) n. a leather from Córdoba originally of tanned goatskin later of horsehide.
WordNet
n. a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain
Wikipedia
Cordovan may refer to:
- Cordovan, a style of leather
- Shell cordovan, an equine leather
- Cordovan (color), a shade of red-brown
Cordovan is a rich shade of burgundy and a dark shade of rose. Cordovan takes its name from the city of Cordoba, Spain, where the production of shell cordovan leather was first practiced by the Visigoths in the seventh century. The term cordovan has come to describe the color of clothing, leather in particular.
The first recorded use of cordovan as a color name in English was in 1925.
Usage examples of "cordovan".
Their black coats and doublets were cut straight and close, and their cordovan leather shoes, which in the days of our youth were usually the seat of some little ornament, were uniformly square toed and tied with sad-coloured ribbon.
In thirty years as a sailor and caravaneer, he had bought and sold Zanzibar ivory, Sumatran pepper, Ferghana silk, and Cordovan leather.
I removed my ragged K-Mart sneakers and slipped into the cordovans, to see if they fit.
The blue eyes stared at the splendid, unobtrusive, hand-sewn cordovans from Maxwell’s, Dover Street.
The ding-dongs upstairs had unloaded well-used cordovans on him again.
He ruined his Florsheim cordovans the second night, but after that began carrying his Adidas track shoes to work in a paper bag.
There was a group of three men, all wearing brown snap-brimmed hats, shined cordovans, gray lightweight summer suits, white shirts and conservative ties.
When she removed the cordovan leather from the grand piano, and ventured to play a few notes on it, it sounded with a mournful sadness, startling the dismal echoes of the house.
In silk and vair, golden chains, ostrich plumes, cordovan hose, slashed and puffed sleeves, curl-toed shoes, the English showed like peacocks in a hen yard.
His shoes were shell cordovan loafers, quite simple and elegant and polished to a high sheen.
Time went by, the wine was sold, and when they came to clean out the cask, they found in it a small key hanging to a thong of cordovan.