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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cordovan /ˈkɔːdəv(ə)n/

▶noun a kind of soft leather made originally from goatskin and now from horse hide.

– origin C16: from Sp. cordován, former spelling of cordobán ‘of Cordoba’ (a city in southern Spain).

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