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Cris⋅pin

[kris-pin]

–noun

1.	Saint, with his brother (Saint Crispinian) martyred a.d. c285, Roman Christian missionaries in Gaul: patron saints of shoemakers.

2.	(lowercase) a shoemaker.

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Cris·pin (krĭs'pĭn) Pronunciation Key
Roman shoemaker who with his brother Saint Crispinian sought to spread Christianity and was martyred.

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crispin

1645, "shoemaker," in literary use only, from Ss. Crispin and Crispinian (martyred at Soissons, c.285 C.E.), patrons of shoemakers. French hagiographers make the brothers noble Romans who, while they preached in Gaul, worked as shoemakers to avoid living on the alms of the faithful. The name is Crispinus, a Roman cognomen, from L. crispus "curly" (probably with reference to hair).

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