shepherdess

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The stories of her dressing as a shepherdess and milking the royal cows are probably no truer than the claim that she said, “Let them eat brioche.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Her mother was a shepherdess, although her failing health meant she couldn't go to the pastures this year.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

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

There’s a credible and dismaying sequence, late in Schnabel’s film, when van Gogh returns to the shepherdess on the track—the one whom he wanted to sketch at the start.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

They walked into the house, and the little shepherdess was waiting for them.

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