† shepherdishadj.
Obsolete.
Pertaining to or like shepherds; pastoral.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iii. sig. C2v He would also haue drawne her eldest sister..in her shepheardish attire.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. sig. F4 The courte could not be visited, prohibited to all men, but to certaine sheapheardish people.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xxii. 97 That wildenes which they retained of their shepheardish originall, breathed foorth some-what still.
1800 G. Chalmers Life A. Ramsay in A. Ramsay Poems (new ed.) I. p. xxxiv A propitious moment for shepherdish poetry.
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