shepherdess

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Elizabeth was originally depicted as a shepherdess with a crook and a lamb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Channel 5 controller Ben Frow recently said Our Yorkshire Farm, which follows North Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her family, was the broadcaster's most successful factual programme ever.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2021

But it’s an older character—Bo Peep, a ceramic shepherdess in a yearslong flirtation with Sheriff Woody—who’s the film’s greatest delight and most original creation.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2019

Actors playing sheep and a shepherdess instruct the crowd in the finer points of baaa-ing and hoof-bumping.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2017

The cat fell to the ground, and the little shepherdess, as if she were astonished by her own act of violence, crumbled.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo