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Recent Examples of shepherdess
There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.
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Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
Upon being discovered, the Chilean is taken prisoner but his life is spared when it is revealed that the shepherdess is expecting his child.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
The Queen was—and will remain—a shepherdess of Britishness: someone to lead the way.
—John Galliano, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022
Set in Peru’s Andes, Margarita, a shepherdess, comes upon a dying Chilean soldier who has escaped from a battle.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
The third title follows Lucija, a mountain shepherdess who waits for her boyfriend to help her bring her cows down to the valley.
—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 23 May 2022
Westwood said her collection was inspired by Boucher’s Daphnis and Chloe, a painting based upon the ancient Greek tale of a shepherd and shepherdess who fall in love without knowing what love is.
—Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
The painting depicts a young shepherdess kneeling in prayer side-by-side with an angel before the Lady Madonna.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
Upon being discovered, the Chilean is taken prisoner but his life is spared when it is revealed that the shepherdess is expecting his child.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
The Queen was—and will remain—a shepherdess of Britishness: someone to lead the way.
—John Galliano, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022
Set in Peru’s Andes, Margarita, a shepherdess, comes upon a dying Chilean soldier who has escaped from a battle.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
The third title follows Lucija, a mountain shepherdess who waits for her boyfriend to help her bring her cows down to the valley.
—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 23 May 2022
Westwood said her collection was inspired by Boucher’s Daphnis and Chloe, a painting based upon the ancient Greek tale of a shepherd and shepherdess who fall in love without knowing what love is.
—Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
The painting depicts a young shepherdess kneeling in prayer side-by-side with an angel before the Lady Madonna.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherdess
Noun
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Jade, a 3-year-old shepherd, was originally adopted from an animal shelter in Olathe, Kansas, in December 2024.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Saint Patrick was actually British, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved as a teenager to work as a shepherd.—
Maureen Murphy,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Interviews with sheepherders were conducted in Spanish through an interpreter.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Jan. 2025
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For sheepherders living in Idaho, mountainous distances are all part of a day’s work.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Instead, stabilizers are cowboys tasked with wrangling a very specific herd: water.—
Ali Bouzari,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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How many movie cowboys would admit that? ‘Shirkers’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Hari Kumar,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
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The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.—
Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2024
Noun
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The French- and Corsican-language drama centers on Joseph, one of the last goatherds on the Corsican coastline, who receives a visit from the Mafia.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2024
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Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.—
Ursula Schmied,
Glamour,
17 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.—
Stephanie Tharpe,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
2 May 2024
Noun
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Dress the part, but don’t feel pressured to go full cowgirl if that’s not your vibe.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
15 Mar. 2025
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For her big day, Khloé channeled her inner cowgirl by wearing denim corset covered in beaded details, a dark pair of jeans and a denim cowboy hat.—
Sabienna Bowman,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Shepherdess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherdess. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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