† corviser, -or Obs.
Forms: 5 corveser, -our, 5–6 corvyser, 6 (corvoster), 7 (corvester), 7–8 corvisor, 8 corvizor, -ser, -cer.
[a. AF. corviser, corveser = OF. corveisier, later courvoisier shoemaker, f. OF. courveis leather:—L. Cordubense = Cordubānum, of Cordova, cordovan.]
A shoemaker.
| 1401 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 109 Girdelers, coferers, ne corvysers. 1467 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 371 That the corvesers bye ther lether in the seid yeld halle. 1467 in Ripon Ch. Acts 193 J. Thomson, corvesour. 1530 Palsgr. 209/1 Corvyser, cordovanier. a 1563 Bale Sel. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 446 None excepted neither King nor Corvoster. 1609 D. Rogers Harl. MS. 1944 lf. 25 b, Coruesters or shoe⁓makers. 1720 Lond. Gaz. No. 5906/9 David Weaver, of Kelliber Issa, in the Parish of Kerry, Corvicer. 1725 Ibid. No. 6380/7 David Richards, late of Llangathen, Corvisor. |