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Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer
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cordwainer
Word definitions for cordwainer in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
thumb|upright=1.15|A cordwainer making shoes , Capri , Italy A cordwainer is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade can be contrasted with the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cordwainer \Cord"wain*er\ (-?r), n. [OE. cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier.] A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a shoemaker 2 a worker in cordwain, a leather from Córdoba. 3 a member of the Cordwainers livery company
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shoemaker, leatherworker," c.1100, from Anglo-French cordewaner , from Old French cordoan "(leather) of Cordova," the town in Spain whose leather was favored by the upper class for shoes. Compare cordovan , a later borrowing directly from Spanish.
Usage examples of cordwainer.
Three years ago, he began a series of stories set in a fantastic Cordwainer Smithian future world, somewhat recovered from the destruction of the ancient civilization of the Utopians, where biotechnology rules.
It was a strange thing to see the King of Spain always dining at eleven o'clock, like the Parisian cordwainers in the seventeenth century.
And when they could be had from him not a shoe nor hose was bought from any of the cordwainers in the town.
But when the cordwainers perceived that their gains were failing (for as Manawyddan shaped the work so Kicva stitched it), they came together and took counsel, and agreed that they would slay them.
And he had warning thereof, and it was told him how the cordwainers had agreed to slay him.
But the others are armourers, fowlers, cordwainers, wheelwrights, and other skilled craftsmen, as well as two farmers.
Here weavers, tailors, basket makers, cordwainers, silk spinners, and potters toiled.
Here weavers, tailors,basket makers, cordwainers, silk spinners, and potterstoiled.