currier
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- noun
- /ˈkɜːriər/
- Archaic
:
curtidor
- Inside the store, the attempt to keep up the Victorian motif continued with Currier & Ives prints on the walls.
Examples
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Boston Musica Viva's next concert for adults, with music by Weir, Child, Carter, and Currier, will take place on March 24 at
Blog text (32) -
By N. Currier.
Academic text (1996) -
And maybe a train and those Currier and Ives cottages.
Blog text (28) -
Currier, Brett D., Rafia Mirza, and Jeff Downing.
Academic text (2018) -
And every once in a while, I could smell the interior of the boy's car—chestnuts and woodsmoke, a regular Currier and Ives fragrance.
Fiction book (1991) -
Currier and Steele note that Hippocrates and Galen both drew on observations from animals and humans to formulate their ideas about health, and early physicians attended to both humans and animals.
Academic text (2013) -
With Miss Aggie and Reserve Lieutenant Prescott Currier leading the attack, the navy had stripped off most of the additive groups that concealed the underlying code groups, but had recovered only a small number of these, so that by December 1941 only about 10 percent of the text of an average JN25b message could be read.
Academic text (1991) -
Erin Currier, who is the project manager of the Pew Charitable Trust's Economic Mobility project, and Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute, who offered testimony on patterns in government spending addressed to promoting mobility and opportunities.
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The skilled currier crafted a beautiful leather bag from the tanned hides.
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After the leather was tanned, the currier added the final touches to enhance its quality.
Synonyms
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A person who works with leather, for example making shoes
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A person who makes or repairs things from leather, like belts and bags
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Currier comes from the old French word cuir, meaning 'leather', which itself comes from Latin corium, meaning 'skin'. A currier was the person who finished and treated hides after they were tanned, so the name literally points to someone who works with leather.