cordwainer
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In Europe, she said, she had studied and performed ballet and actually aspired to be a cordwainer, because she loved the smell of leather and considered fine shoes to be works of art.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2015
In 1429, when Louis was five years old, the fortunes of his father King Charles VII fell so low that a cordwainer refused to sell him a pair of shoes on credit.
From Time Magazine Archive
There broods a sombre cordwainer from Bremen, gloating over his enormous pipe, in form and size like a small barrel, raising an atmosphere for himself of the fumes of coarse uncut knaster.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
His early years were spent at Newcastle-on-Tyne with his uncle, a cordwainer, to whom he was apprentice in his fourteenth year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
First I would go to the tailor and the cordwainer, and be fitted for my new splendours as an archer of the guard.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
