SHEPHERDESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shepherdess mean? 

• SHEPHERDESS (noun)
  The noun SHEPHERDESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman shepherd

  Familiarity information: SHEPHERDESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEPHERDESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman shepherd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shepherdess" is a kind of...):

sheepherder; sheepman; shepherd (a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock)

 Context examples 

There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)