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In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
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Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Caterina was foisted off on a cowherd in a neighboring village, while Ser Piero married into a wealthy family.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
Its name honored one of the first Old English poets, a 7th century cowherd who was said to have waked up from a dream with the gift of verse and song.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
Around us, the valley slopes seem to touch the sky, covered in the Alpine forests where Hans Binder, the family patriarch and Natalie’s grandfather, had worked as a cowherd and logger to earn the money to buy the family sawmill.
—National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds.
—Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017
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Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Caterina was foisted off on a cowherd in a neighboring village, while Ser Piero married into a wealthy family.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
Its name honored one of the first Old English poets, a 7th century cowherd who was said to have waked up from a dream with the gift of verse and song.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
Around us, the valley slopes seem to touch the sky, covered in the Alpine forests where Hans Binder, the family patriarch and Natalie’s grandfather, had worked as a cowherd and logger to earn the money to buy the family sawmill.
—National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020
All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds.
—Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017
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“Cowherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowherd. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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cowherd
noun
cow·herd
-ˌhərd 
: one who tends cows
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