Shepherdess
['ʃepədɪs;,ʃepə'des] or [,ʃɛpɚ'dɛs]
Definition
(n.) A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.
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Examples
- Down into the bosom of a stony shepherdess there steals a fleck of light and warmth that would have done it good a hundred years ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We are not Maurice and Helena, but Florizel and Perdita, shepherd and shepherdess; so come, my dearest, adown the mountain. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Ribbons, and silks, and flowers, and pipings; quite unlike the real shepherds and shepherdesses of Melnos, but deliciously delicate for all that. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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