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Recent Examples of shepherdess
The thoughtful decor features pendant lamps inspired by traditional Rwandan headdresses, crafted by local fashion designer Joselyne Umutoniwase, and tasseled armchairs that riff on the traditional Rwandan shepherdess skirts.
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Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
Others, such as the fictional shepherdess Marcela in Don Quixote, decided to lead a life of solitude and freedom away from both men and the confines of the convent.
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Literary Hub,
19 May 2025
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.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2022
The Queen was—and will remain—a shepherdess of Britishness: someone to lead the way.
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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.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
Others, such as the fictional shepherdess Marcela in Don Quixote, decided to lead a life of solitude and freedom away from both men and the confines of the convent.
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Literary Hub,
19 May 2025
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.
—
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shepherdess
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German shepherd There's a reason German shepherds are the go-to breed for police, military and search-and-rescue work worldwide.
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Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.
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Rather than escape, the sheepherder accepts his death.
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Order it with your choice of strawberry, blueberry, or chocolate topping at The Star Hotel, which opened in 1910 as an 11-room boarding house for sheepherders and still rings a dinner bell before mealtime, in the town of Elko.
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An exhibit at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library used AI to illustrate how visitors might look in TR's cowboy garb.
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That sense of modernity has sometimes felt absent from the movies’ sweetly old-fashioned world, which features pull-string cowboy dolls and a shiny spaceman action figure.
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It’s attributed to a cowherd named Caedmon, who is thought to have composed the poem in a burst of inspiration following a religious dream.
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The sculpture depicts Krishna, the protector, raising a mountain with his left arm to shield cowherds from the wrathful storm unleashed by Indra—a pivotal motif in Khmer art.
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Pagnol returns to Marseille and is greeted by his brother Paul, a goatherd.
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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.
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Residents and visitors will line the streets to watch cowhands from various ranches herd more than 30 Longhorns through town, a tradition dating back to when the parade was a downtown cattle drive.
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There are plenty of places to take a horse, with experienced cowhands to guide the way.
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The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.
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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.
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Boötes is often depicted as a herdsman, but its real value lies in its role as a guidepost.
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More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.
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“Shepherdess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shepherdess. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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