Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shepherdess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shepherdess; a female herder.
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- noun A
shepherdess ; afemale herder .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tell Claude I wish him luck with the shep - herdess.
The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot Arthur, Robert 1964
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That refers to the picture of the shep - herdess and her sheep being hidden.
The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot Arthur, Robert 1964
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The picture, the beautiful shep - herdess, was gone.
The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot Arthur, Robert 1964
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Lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess - or perhaps a fish-herdess and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952
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On the other was a formal garden where an elegant shep - herdess with a mask and crook was fleeing on high heels from a satin-coated shepherd.
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Indeed, "My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye, '* is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shep - herdess" taking the tale.
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ... 1812
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