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单词 shepherdess
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shepherdessn.

Brit. /ʃɛpəˈdɛs/, /ˈʃɛpədᵻs/, U.S. /ˈʃɛpərdəs/
Forms: Also 1500s shepheardize.
Etymology: < shepherd n. + -ess suffix1.
a. A female shepherd; a woman or girl who tends sheep; also figurative. Also in pastoral poetry (see shepherd n. 1b).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > shepherdess
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [noun] > personage in pastoral poetry > shepherdess
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1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxviiv For me lyste..of al myne a shepherdesse to be cleped.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. Kv Consider with your selfe faire Shepheardize, that poore men feele paine as well as Princes.
1595 E. Spenser Astrophel in Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. F4v The gentlest shepheardesse that liues this day.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I4v Tell me, said I, in deep distresse, Where I may find my Shepardesse.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 25 Aug. 265 He..wondered that he had not seen the Shepherdesses dancing.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 608 in Idylls of King 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.
1885 J. Ruskin Pleasures Eng. 137 St. Margaret of Antioch was a shepherdess.
1902 A. Meynell Later Poems 9 She walks..A shepherdess of sheep.
b. A representation (in painting, etc.; esp. china or earthenware) of a shepherdess.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > others
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1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 35 Watteau's shepherdesses, nay, his very sheep, are coquet.
1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 111 Little lacquered earthen shepherdesses.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vi. 33 Her dress is as the dress of a china shepherdess: so dainty in its colours.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
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1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4115 Woollen shawls and cloakings, in clan, shepherdess, and fancy patterns.
1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. vii. 105 Her little wild rose-wreathed shepherdess hat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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