Translation for '
cordovan' from English to Slovak
| ADJ | Cordovan | more Cordovan | most Cordovan | |
| NOUN | cordovan | - | |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Cordovan is a rich shade of burgundy and a dark shade of rose.
- It is sometimes called "cordovan" although this term more properly refers to a particular type of horse leather.
- Pope Paul VI discontinued the use of the papal slippers but continued to wear the red outdoor papal shoes, which were abandoned by Pope John Paul II in favour of cordovan brown leather walking shoes made in his native Poland.
- On the inside were new tan or cordovan trims that replaced the honey and garnet colors, while the interior assist pulls on the door panels were removed.
- A room described as a "leather room" had leopard print chairs with walls decorated in 'cordovan-colored fabric'.
- Horween Leather Company, the oldest tannery in the United States, is known for its production of shell cordovan, was called the "Cordovan capital of the world" by the "Chicago Tribune".
- The fine goatskins were tanned to create the fine, pale, leather known as "cordoban" or "cordovan", from the Spanish town of Córdoba, where the process was developed.
- Medieval cordwainers used cordovan leather for the highest-quality shoes, but cordwainers also used domestically produced leathers and were not solely producers of luxury footwear.
- "Acrobasis exsulella", the cordovan pyralid moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus "Acrobasis".
- Shell cordovan is a horse leather made not from the outer skin but from an under layer, found only in equine species, called the shell.
- The general popularity of brown over black extends to loafers, sometimes using exotic leathers such as suede and cordovan.
- – its shell cordovan comes from the last such tannery in America, Horween Leather Company.
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