currier
/ˈkʌrɪə
/noun
A person who curries leather.Leather was softened or beaten by people called curriers, or gurriers....
- There have always been stealthy curriers of influence who parasitically attach themselves to powerful figures, sucking their life-bloods, and then by association becoming powerful themselves.
- The upholstery is made by the Italian currier.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French corier, from Latin coriarius, from corium 'leather'.
Rhymes
- punch biopsy
- punchboard
- punchbowl
- punchcard
- punch clock
- punch-cutter
- punch-drunk
- punch-drunkenness
- punched card
- punched paper
- punched paper tape
- punched tape
- puncheon
- puncheoned
- puncher
- punchery
- punch forceps
- punch graft
- punch grafting
- punch-house
- punchifier
- punchily
- Punchinello
- Punchinello voice
- punchiness