Examples from literature

• I'm only a poor chap,—my father was a shepherd, and I began life as a cowherd—I don't want any titles of courtesy. 
• It was nearly morning when we got off the bog, and as the rain was falling we took refuge in a tumble-down hut which had probably been a cowherd's. 
• The cowherd and I took our flock down the meadows and into the woods where there was fern. 
• You were a cowherd, as you say—but you educated yourself at a University and got a degree.