shepherdess
Example Sentences
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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
The effect is unnerving—a kind of neurotic pastoral—and, like the shepherdess, we’re not sure how to react.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
The hour was almost upon me, so in haste I donned my shepherdess costume.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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