shepherdess
Noun
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Noun
- A female shepherd.
- 1709, Anthony Aston, The Coy Shepherdess ↗ page 18
- 1763, Select Moral Tales. (The Good Mother, The Shepherdess of the Alps) ↗ page 83
- I thought it a crime to refuse nature the maintenance of a life much more grievous than death. I changed my* dress for the simple habit of a shepherdess, and embraced this state as my only refuge; since that time all my consolation has been to weep over this grave, which shall be my own.
- 1778, The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher ↗ page 115
- A Faithful Shepherdess
- 1778, Fortunate Shepherdess ↗
- 1854, Swiss Shepherdess Morning Song, Or, The Merry Woodland Maid ↗
- 1858, Mariette, the Swiss Shepherdess ↗
- 1887, A Border Shepherdess ↗
- September 2014, New York Film Festival to Revive Paul Grimault’s Animated Classic ↗ IndieWire
- the satirical The King And The Mockingbird follows a chimney sweep and shepherdess on the run from a tyrannical king
- November 2014, It’s Taken Decades, But the Surreal Animated Film The King and the Mockingbird Is Finally Here ↗ Vulture
- The king is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in a painting on his wall, but she herself is in love with the handsome chimney sweep in the painting beside her.
- A large and deep armchair with a cushion.
- French: bergère, (literary, diminutive) pastourelle
- German: Hirtin, Schäferin, Schafhirtin
- Portuguese: pastora
- Russian: пасту́шка
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