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cordwainer

noun as in cobbler

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noun as in shoemaker

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Cordwainer was the old name for "shoemaker," and is still kept in the names of shoemakers' guilds and societies.

"Both equally necessary members of the body corporate," said Henry, whose father had been a cordwainer.

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

I was an apprentice to a cordwainer, but my indentures were given up before I left England, sir.

"She shall have a good cloak," said he; and he proceeded to inform me that he was a cordwainer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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