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

But in Madrid the whole city, from grandee to cordwainer, goes with childlike earnestness into the enjoyment of the hour.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

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 Duthie, William

Buried Rebecca, daughter of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer, 13 yeares.”

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.