cordwainer
Example Sentences
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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
On a fine summer's evening, at the door of one of these large antiquated houses, sat Dame Deborah Thrumpkinson, the aged widow of Barachiah Thrumpkinson, cordwainer, deceased.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
But in Madrid the whole city, from grandee to cordwainer, goes with childlike earnestness into the enjoyment of the hour.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
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
