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shepherdess

[shep-er-dis] / ˈʃɛp ər dɪs /


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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