Example Sentences
Sarah Schutte, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
The doctor then replaces the ruler’s missing arm with a swineherd’s.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus.
—Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
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Word History
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Swineherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swineherd. Accessed 10 Jun. 2023.
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