currier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsperson who dresses and finishes tanned leather by scraping, softening, coloring, and treating it

   The currier scraped and oiled the hide before sending it to the saddler.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who grooms a horse with a curry comb

   The stable's currier brushed dried mud from the horse's coat.

The leather-worker sense comes through Old French corier from Latin coriarius ("worker in leather"), based on corium ("hide, leather"). The horse-grooming sense is now understood as curry + -er and is associated with curry in its older sense of rubbing down or preparing a horse.

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