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
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 Duthie, William
"Ephraim Cobb, from the goodly city of Glocester, where I have dwelt for seven years, serving apprentice to a praiseworthy cordwainer."
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir
Buried Rebecca, daughter of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer, 13 yeares.”
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
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