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He unlaced his cordwain jerkin.
The word is derived from "cordwain", or "cordovan", the leather produced in Córdoba, Spain.
"The binding is of brown cordwain, all edges are gilt, and there are etchings by Gwinoc, hand-tinted.
Cordwainers were workers in fine leather; the Company gets its name from "cordwain" (cordovan), the white leather produced from goatskin in Cordova, Spain.