cordonnier

French name so correctly spelt, so elaborately accented, so beautifully finished in gold letters, which from their form, however, one would say that the cordonnier must have imported from England, was only visible to those favoured knights who were occasionally permitted to carry the shoes home in their pockets.

The Three Clerks 2004

She always took care that her shoes had within them the name of a French cordonnier; and her gloves were made to order in the Rue Du Bac, though usually bought and paid for in Tottenham

The Three Clerks 2004

We'll bet you a hundred to one on the result: and you may ask any _cordonnier_ in the Rue de Richelieu.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

I strolled into the shop of the village _cordonnier_ on Saturday morning to ask why it had not been delivered, and I found the man busy on a duplicate of it which he promised to deliver before the evening.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

I have already shaken hands with the Cook, and with the _cordonnier_ who has beautifully mended my shoes.

The Enormous Room 1928

Why didn't I give Monsieur Auguste's little friend, the _cordonnier_, more than six francs for mending my shoes?

The Enormous Room 1928

Her shoes, made by the celebrated _cordonnier_, Raveneau, show heels three inches in height.

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

Il eut souri, comme tout le monde, des artifices par lesquels il obligeait l'enfant a se faire acteur au milieu de ses petits camarades, a imiter tour a tour le soldat qui monte la garde, le cordonnier qui travaille, le cheval qui pietine, l'homme fatigue qui se repose.

Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889

She always took care that her shoes had within them the name of a French cordonnier; and her gloves were made to order in the Rue Du Bac, though usually bought and paid for in Tottenham

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

French name so correctly spelt, so elaborately accented, so beautifully finished in gold letters, which from their form, however, one would say that the _cordonnier_ must have imported from England, was only visible to those favoured knights who were occasionally permitted to carry the shoes home in their pockets.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848