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

Her mother was a shepherdess, although her failing health meant she couldn't go to the pastures this year.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

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

Hence the opening shot, jolting and handheld, in which we share van Gogh’s point of view as he approaches a shepherdess and her flock on a country track and asks if he can sketch her.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

“What girl wouldn't? You'd look sweet, Mrs. de Winter, dressed as a little Dresden shepherdess, your hair tucked under a big three-cornered hat.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier