Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine leather originally made of goatskin but now more frequently of split horsehide.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Spanish leather. See cordwain.
- n. Leather made from horse-hide.
Wiktionary
- n. a leather from Córdoba originally of tanned goatskin later of horsehide.
- adj. oxblood (the color)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain
Etymologies
- from Córdova or Córdoba a Spanish town. (Wiktionary)
- Spanish cordován, from Córdova, Córdoba, Spain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Me, I'm trying to decide if I should pack the cordovan mary janes OR the black chinese style slippers, and if I can get away with leaving behind any of: hiking boots, running shoes, Tevas, climbing shoes, goth boots (which count as athletic footwear ... * g*) ...”
“I have purchased a pair of cordovan Mary Janes, a pair of stompy boots (Doc Martens got cheap: my last pair of gothing boots was bought in1993 and I noticed in Austin that they've sort of started to hurt my feet after four hours of dancing), and a pair of rock climbing approach shoes.”
“Color The two colors you must have in your shoe closet are black and cordovan (the brown which is burgundy with a hint of rose).”
“A blue shirt, the gold Tiffany cuff links, gray slacks, and that nice pair of cordovan Alden tassel moc loafers.”
“Hand-numbered and -crafted from Horween shell cordovan, the limited-edition 721 LTD boot from Wolverine's 1000 Mile collection offers a timeless silhouette that works with jeans or trousers. $725 at Redeem 1734 14th St. NW, 202-332-7447; visit www.wolverine.com for additional retailers.”
“Bunker had never seen their like: apples the shape of a perfect McIntosh (a variety widely planted in Maine only after a calamitous freeze killed more than a million trees in 1934) but colored a lustrous dark cordovan, purple-black with firm, cream-colored flesh.”
“Hillary amid a group of men, her jewel-toned pantsuits vivid in a sea of gray, navy and cordovan.”
“I wish they were an update but not this one on the classic cordovan Weejuns, a shoe I wore constantly from elementary school through high school, but you can't have everything.”
“I wore cordovan tasseled Weejuns in high school and for some reason my penny loafer of choice was a black Dexter.”
“A young black man might have to wear a button-down shirt and awkward cordovan shoes to his job at a bank, but in his hours off he could tie on a bandanna, listen to gangsta rap, and affect the style and language of the outsiders he had come to admire.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cordovan’.
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Cords
cord, cords, spinal cord, corduroy, accord, record, accordion, recorder, cord of wood, cordwood, cordial, cordless and 27 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
hamburger, wiener, finlandisation, vernissage, hackney, venetians, bohemian, anti-macassar, berliner, cravat, calico, serendipity and 113 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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naming the rainbow
rose madder, china white, sepia, incarnadine, lily white, cerulean, crimson, ivory, celadon, mocha, gunmetal gray, lazuline and 86 more...
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Exotic Color Names
Single-word names of colors.
bisque, chartreuse, cornsilk, gainsboro, roseate, verdigris, carmine, dahlia, vermilion, puce, cinereal, muslin and 41 more...
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Spanish Spelling Bee List
i am still copying down lists but i am in the 5th grade and got fourth in the spelling bee out of 26 people, the word i missed was candelabra, well next year i will win because now i know the words
burrito, gazpacho, alligator, chinchilla, pueblo, quesadilla, flamenco, cabana, filibuster, cilantro, mesa, cafeteria and 60 more...
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Descriptive Words
to be used carefully in prose
cordovan, combative, belligerent, perturbed, terse, callous, rundown, debased, jilted, forlorn, perplexed, magnanimous and 6 more...
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The Miller's Tale
cheesemonger, fishmonger, mercer, milliner, cobbler, sailor, cooper, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, jewler and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cordovan.
bilby "He introduced Stafford and Hardin to Brice who was a square man of medium height and with a skin tanned to the colour of cordovan leather."
- 'Windfall', Desmond Bagley. Jan 6, 2008