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

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

“One o’clock, mum,” said Mr James Chawner, cordwainer, and member of the society of Campanological Brothers, commonly known by the soubriquet of Beaky Jem, tenor in St Runwald’s peal.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

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