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
Daniel Elston, aged 34, late of Waddington, cordwainer, com.
From The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) by Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton
Sirrah, if more to me thou talkest of dogs, Horses, or aught that to thy craft belongs, Thou mayst go hang for me!—A cordwainer Go fetch me straight—the choicest in the town.
From The Love-chase by Henry Morley
Buried Rebecca, daughter of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer, 13 yeares.”
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
