shepherdess
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess.
Noun[edit]
shepherdess (plural shepherdesses, masculine shepherd)
- A female shepherd.
- 1709, Anthony Aston, The Coy Shepherdess[1], page 18:
- 1763, Select Moral Tales. (The Good Mother, The Shepherdess of the Alps)[2], 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[3], page 115:
- A Faithful 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.
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female shepherd
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armchair with a cushion