shepherdess

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Recent Examples of shepherdess There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin. Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023 And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022 Upon being discovered, the Chilean is taken prisoner but his life is spared when it is revealed that the shepherdess is expecting his child. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022 The Queen was—and will remain—a shepherdess of Britishness: someone to lead the way. John Galliano, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022 Set in Peru’s Andes, Margarita, a shepherdess, comes upon a dying Chilean soldier who has escaped from a battle. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022 The third title follows Lucija, a mountain shepherdess who waits for her boyfriend to help her bring her cows down to the valley. Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 23 May 2022 Westwood said her collection was inspired by Boucher’s Daphnis and Chloe, a painting based upon the ancient Greek tale of a shepherd and shepherdess who fall in love without knowing what love is. Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021 The painting depicts a young shepherdess kneeling in prayer side-by-side with an angel before the Lady Madonna. BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
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Noun
  • When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Another grail watch that Wind helped shepherd to a client was an exceptional Paul Newman Rolex Daytona Panda reference 2623 with a full set and a tropical dial that was sold by a small Swedish auction house just under a decade ago.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The region has a rich history of sheep farming going back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Basque sheepherders settled there.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Barbershop Trail: Named for a sheepherder who used his skills cutting the hair of his neighbors, the Barbershop Trail is part of the Cabin Loop Trail system on the Rim.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Dillahunt will play modern cowboy William Macon, a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Kate’s emerging cowboy tendencies, Trowbridge’s ruthlessness and immaturity, Eidra’s laser focus on intelligence gathering and analysis, Dennison’s rectitude, Roylin’s geopolitics-whisperer shtick — all are heightened and more immediately consequential than before.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The French- and Corsican-language drama centers on Joseph, one of the last goatherds on the Corsican coastline, who receives a visit from the Mafia.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.
    Ursula Schmied, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.
    Maria Sherman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • On a recent morning, one cowhand lounged in dusty jeans.
    Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Noun
  • Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • Unleash your inner cowboy or cowgirl at a dude ranch Dude ranches usually conjure up images of mountainous terrain in places like the Rockies and Badlands.
    Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Related Articles The limited-edition collection includes denim shirts, jeans, jackets, flannels and boots that reflect the classic outfits worn by working cowboys and cowgirls.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024

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