cordwainer

American  

[kawrd-way-ner] / ˈkɔrd weɪ nər /

noun

Archaic.

1. a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.

2. shoemaker; cobbler.

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cordwainer British  

/ ˈkɔːdˌweɪnə /

noun

1. archaic a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather

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Other Word Forms

• cordwainery
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of cordwainer

1150–1200; Middle English cordewaner < Old French cordewan ( i ) er. See cordwain, -er ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cordwainer

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

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

There broods a sombre cordwainer from Bremen, gloating over his enormous pipe, in form and size like a small barrel, raising an atmosphere for himself of the fumes of coarse uncut knaster. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

If the cordwainer be indiscreet, all I have to do is to look well that he have no more to do with my affairs and thank him for that which is done.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

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