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

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

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 Lang, Andrew

An intelligent cordwainer of this city has invented a bathing shoe to fit the under-toe at Long Branch.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 by Various