cordovan

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My size was out in black so I ordered the cordovan (reddish) color, it goes with lots of stuff and adds a fun pop of color to black outfits.

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  1. noun A fine leather originally made of goatskin but now more frequently of split horsehide.

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  • Hinther had tackled "seltzer" and "duenna" and "regime" and "erudite" and "cordovan" and
  • My size was out in black so I ordered the cordovan (reddish) color, it goes with lots of stuff and adds a fun pop of color to black outfits. —  Zappos.com: new styles
  • Their legs were cased in high-topped riding-boots of tawny cordovan, with gilt spurs, and the housings of their saddles were of blue with the gilt anchors of the admiralty upon them. —  Master Skylark
  • His boots were russet cordovan, mid-thigh tall, and the rowels of his clinking spurs were silver stars. —  Master Skylark
  • The wine displays a deep cordovan color and effusive aromas of plums, blackberries, cigar tobacco and spice. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
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  1. Spanish cordován, from Córdova, Córdoba, Spain.

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  1. Early modern English also corderan; from Spanish cordovan, now cordoban = Portuguese cordovão, cordovan leather: see cordwain, the earlier form in English.
 

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/ˈkɔrdəvən/
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