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shepherdess|ˈʃɛpədɪs|
Also 6 erron. shepheardize.
[f. shepherd n. + -ess.]
A female shepherd; a woman or girl who tends sheep; also fig. Also in pastoral poetry (see shepherd 1 b).
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ii. (Skeat) l. 86 For me liste..of al myne a Shepherdesse to be cleped. 1590Greene Never too late ii. Wks. (Grosart) VIII. 216 Consider with your selfe faire Shepheardize, that poore men feele paine as well as Princes. 1591–5Spenser Astrophel 212 The gentlest shepheardesse that liues this day. 1648Herrick Hesper., Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler, Tell me, said I, in deep distresse, Where I may find my Shepardesse. 1758Johnson Idler No. 71 ⁋13 He..wondered that he had not seen the shepherdesses dancing. 1859Tennyson Merlin & V. 608 Percivale..Then paced for coolness in the chapel-yard; Where one of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark. 1885Ruskin Pleas. Eng. 137 St. Margaret of Antioch was a shepherdess. 1902A. Meynell Later Poems 9 She walks..A shepherdess of sheep.
b. A representation (in painting, etc.; esp. china or earthenware) of a shepherdess.
1771H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1782) IV. 73 Watteau's shepherdesses, nay, his very sheep, are coquet. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 91 Little lacquered earthen shepherdesses. 1870Dickens E. Drood vi, Her dress is as the dress of a china shepherdess: so dainty in its colours.
c. attrib. and Comb.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4115, Woollen shawls and cloakings, in clan, shepherdess, and fancy patterns. 1867R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower xxvi, Her little wild rose-wreathed shepherdess hat. |