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Recent Examples of shepherdessThere’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.—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
An Australian shepherd who's too scared to go near her orange cat sibling has delighted social media users with her hilarious solution to move past the feline.
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Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
Generally, Belgian Malinois dogs compete in the sport, though it isn’t necessarily limited to the breed, with German shepherds sometimes taking part.
After Joe translates for Washington in an interrogation with a sheepherder whose land borders the ravine where Vines’s body was found, Washington finally makes her suspicions plain.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
Whitfield doubles down on his previous orders, instructing the former sheepherder to murder all the Duttons and dump their bodies in the lawless border town.
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
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.
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.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.
In order to give the look a touch of country sensibility, Stefani wore a pair of black cowgirl boots.
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Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
4 Apr. 2025
There is nothing sadder than a country spectacular, especially when the most imaginative performance available is a horde of people dressed as cowboys and cowgirls.
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