单词 | shepherdess |
释义 | shepherdess From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Agriculture Occupationsshepherdessshep‧herd‧ess /ˈʃepədes $ -ərdɪs/ noun [countable] old-fashionedBOTAa woman whose job is to take care of sheepExamples from the Corpusshepherdess• Margaret became a shepherdess, during which she was spotted by the governor.• After the visions she'd become a shepherdess of souls, leading them to Our Lady and to repentance.• Also patron of poverty and shepherdesses.• At Charlecote Park in Warwickshire there are lead statues of a shepherd and shepherdess made by him in about 1718.• In real life she'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma.• Porcelain shepherdess and fleeces white as snow. |
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