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

If the cordwainer be indiscreet, all I have to do is to look well that he have no more to do with my affairs and thank him for that which is done.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

Mr. Whistler's opinion that there is nothing like leather—of a jovial and Japanese design—savours somewhat of the Oriental cordwainer.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill

“Well,” said she, “take the measure of my foot, and desire the cordwainer to make shoes for me.”

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir