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
He went down the stairs and past the little shepherdess.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
