cordwainer

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People found to be of too low a rank to have an extremely long point could be fined, and "any cordwainer or cobbler within the city of London or within three miles of any part of the same city" was banned from supplying or making them for people of insufficient nobility.

From BBC

Lavie: No science fiction writer was ever as weird, as brilliant and as unjustly neglected, perhaps, as Cordwainer Smith.

From Washington Post

After the war, Wheaton and his family moved to New York, where he worked as a shoemaker, then known as a cordwainer, and farmer.

From Washington Times

Others focus on the horror and mystery of islands, such as the world described in Cordwainer Smith’s classic “A Planet Named Shayol,” in which convicts are exposed to a virus that makes them grow extra organs, which are then harvested.

From Washington Post

Mr. Ellison moved to Los Angeles in 1962, aiming to break into the lucrative screenwriting trade, but continued to publish stories and novels, many under assumed names, most notably “Cordwainer Bird.”

From Washington Post