or CORDINERS, the term by which shoemakers are designated in the statutes. The word is formed from the French cordouanier, which Ménage derives from cordovan, a kind of leather brought from Cordova, and used for the upper leathers of shoes. Others derive it from corde, rope, because shoes were anciently made of cords; as, indeed, they still are in some parts of Spain, under the name of alpargates. But the former etymology is evidently more proper.