cordwainer
Americannoun
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a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
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shoemaker; cobbler.
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Origin of cordwainer
1150–1200; Middle English cordewaner < Old French cordewan ( i ) er. See cordwain, -er 2
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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
In the reign of Richard II., "every cordwainer that shod any man or woman on Sunday was to pay thirty shillings."
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Occasionally they might be found amongst tradesmen; but they were most frequently met with at the loom, or amongst those who had learned the art and mystery of a cordwainer.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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
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