gentle craft

The art of shoemaking. One of the gentle craft: a shoemaker: so called because once practiced by St. Crispin.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Also practiced by Joshua McShaver in The Earl of Her Dreams.

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