Definition of "shepherdess" []

• A girl or woman who herds, guards, and tends sheep. (noun)

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• "In it the shepherdess is standing by her flock engrossed in her knitting."
• "I call our shepherdess Honorine even though perhaps not infallibly naming the sociable soubrette who might, with all her gay bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided."
• "As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French."