Pronunciation
- (noun):
- (adjective):
- Rhymes: -ʌɹiə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: fur‧rier
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman, from Old French forreor, from fourrer (“to line or trim with fur”).
Noun
furrier (plural furriers)
- A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur.
1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:The furrier went on to say that he had a real beaute of a Canadian three-quarter squirrel just in.
Translations
person who sells, makes and deals otherwise with fur
- Bulgarian: кожар (bg) m (kožar), кожухар m (kožuhar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 毛皮商
- Czech: kožešník (cs) m, kožišník m
- Danish: buntmager c, buntmagerske c (female)
- Dutch: bontwerker (nl) m, bontwerkster f
- Esperanto: peltisto, peltistino (female)
- Estonian: kasuksepp, köösner
- Finnish: turkkuri (fi)
- French: fourreur (fr) m, fourreuse (fr) f, pelletier (fr) m, pelletière (fr) f
- Galician: peleteiro (gl) m, peleteira f
- German: Kürschner (de) m, Kürschnerin (de) f
- Hungarian: szűcs (hu)
- Italian: pellicciaio (it) m, pellicciaia f
- Latin: pelliō m
- Macedonian: крзнар m (krznar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: buntmaker m, buntmakerske m or f
- Nynorsk: buntmakar m, buntmakerske f
- Ottoman Turkish: كوركجی (kürkcü)
- Persian: واتگر (fa) (vâtgar)
- Plautdietsch: Pelzneia m
- Polish: kuśnierz (pl) m, kuśnierka f, futrzarz m, futrzarka f
- Romanian: blănar (ro) m, blănăreasă (ro) f
- Russian: меховщи́к (ru) m (mexovščík), скорня́к (ru) m (skornják)
- Serbo-Croatian: kr̀znar (sh) m
- Slovak: kožušník m, kožušníčka f
- Slovene: krznar m
- Spanish: peletero m, peletera f
- Swedish: körsnär (sv) c, körsnärska c, buntmakare (sv) c, buntmakerska c (female)
- Turkish: kürkçü (tr)
- Ukrainian: хутровик m (xutrovyk), кушнір m (kušnir)
- Walloon: peaslî (wa) m
- Yiddish: קירזשנער m (kirzhner), קירזשנערין f (kirzhnerin)
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Etymology 2
From Middle English forreour, from Old French forrier, forrour, feureur. See foray.
Noun
furrier (plural furriers)
- (historical, British) A person who secures accommodation for an army.
- Synonym: quartermaster
1637, Robert Monro, chapter 1, in Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keyes-regiment) Levied in August 1626, page 33:The Furriers sent before, to divide the Quarters.
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.