sennn.
/sɛn/ rare.
A herdsman in the Alps. senn-cabin n. = sennhutt n. sennhutt n. [representing German sennhütte] a herdsman's chalet.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding > herdsman or woman
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1826 F. D. Hemans League of Alps 1 'Twas night upon the Alps. The Senn's wild horn,..had pour'd its last long tone.
a1835 F. D. Hemans tr. J. L. Tieck Alp-horn Song in Wks. (1839) III. 109 The low senn-cabins, and pastures free.
1868 C. Kingsley Hermits 131 During that short period of the year when the maidens in the sennhutt watch the cattle upon the upland pastures.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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