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

First I would go to the tailor and the cordwainer, and be fitted for my new splendours as an archer of the guard.

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

Studious of his figure and of his attire, he walked as much as possible on his heels, to keep up the reformation he had wrought in the workmanship of the cordwainer.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

“Well,” said she, “take the measure of my foot, and desire the cordwainer to make shoes for me.”

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

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