单词 | pastora |
释义 | pastoran. literary. A shepherdess.Sometimes used in literature as the proper name of a shepherdess. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > shepherdess herdessc1374 shepherdess1532 shepherd1588 pastora1612 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 ii. iv. 83 She that goes vp and down these plaines and hils among vs in the habite of a Pastora [Sp. en habito de pastora]. 1661 I. Walton Daman & Dorus in A. Brome Songs & Other Poems 8 Tyterus, and his dear Clora, Tom and Will, and their Pastora. 1729 H. Carey Artful Shepherdess in Poems Several Occasions 198 The fair Pastora Sat in a shady Grove, With Coridon her darling Swain Prostrate before her. 1771 J. Cunningham Narcissus in Poems, Chiefly Pastoral 47 The fair Pastora chanc'd to pass, With such an angel air. 1827 G. Darley Sylvia v. iii. 167 Some country-hoyden, I surmise, that purls a little through an oaten pipe, and infests these parts in a sheep-keeping character,—a ‘dear Pastora’. 2002 Renascence (Nexis) 54 150 He does not plead with the pastora but, rather, laments her absence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1612 |
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