Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordwainery
Literary usage of Cordwainery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"But in what part or (on) what side of the street therin I find it not exactly
mentioned. See below in the cordwainery" or ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... wax-end of old-fashioned cordwainery; since men who work the machines in modern
boot factories, or who do ordinary repairing, do not exhibit the ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"The task of a daily pair of shoes, coupled even with some prospect of victuals,
and an honourable Mastership in cordwainery, and perhaps the post of ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and royal blazonry of cordwainery. Except indeed that this is not comic; ah
no, it is comico-tragic ; with bound Couriers, and a Doom hanging over it; ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"As far as my own observation carries me, the cause must be looked for in the
last, lapstone, and wax-end of old - fashioned cordwainery ; since men who work ..."
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