shepherdess

Example Sentences

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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

The Thomas Hudson artwork, believed to show Lady Elizabeth Yorke as a shepherdess, had been on loan to Wimpole for several decades.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 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

It was my idea that we disguise ourselves as a rustic and a shepherdess, for the lovers in Gertrude’s romances often did so.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein