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

An apprentice of a cordwainer in the town ran away in 1764, or, as it was worded on the police notice, "did elope from service."

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

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

A green bag is now the badge of a cordwainer in this city.

From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various