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Someone who turns cow corpses into wallets so you don't have to think about it.
means A person whose trade is curing and treating animal hides to turn them into leather.
from From 'tan,' tracing back to medieval Latin 'tannare,' rooted in 'tannum' — the crushed oak bark once used to cure hides. The bark's tannins (same word family) are what actually lock the leather in place, so the craft and the chemical share a name.
- old job
- once ranked among the smelliest trades in history
- location rule
- tanneries were legally banished downwind of cities
- process
- uses tannin, the same stuff that darkens tea
- surname origin
- English surname Tanner literally means did this for a living