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

“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

An apprentice of a cordwainer in the town ran away in 1764, or, as it was worded on the police notice, "did elope from service."

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

In the reign of Richard II., "every cordwainer that shod any man or woman on Sunday was to pay thirty shillings."

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter