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  • n  a woman shepherd
  • v  watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
  • v  tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats

  • In Marie-Thrse, he found a shepherdessa placid, ill-educated and wholly compliant blond, who had never heard of him or his work, and offered nothing that even Picasso's .
  • When the last Watteau shepherdess had traipsed across the stage some time after midnight, the company dove for the buffet and polished off all the tiny hams and suckling pigs .
  • It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she .
News & Articles

  • PPS hires goats to clean up invasive plants
    PORTLAND --The Portland Public School District turned a thorny problem into a delicious meal for a herd of goats. The district hired “Goat Power” -- a team of 39 goats and a protective llama-- to eat away nearly half an acre of overgrown invasive plants growing behind the district’s headquarters. Goat Power owner and Shepherdess Brianna Murphy runs the business and said her business specializes ...
    Oct. 5, 2013 - KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland
Quotes

  • Robert Graham in Monsters and Critics.com
    Graham said in a past interview that Mary is "a powerful mother, the protector, the enthroned queen, the Lady of the Rosary, the Divine Shepherdess, the warrior - which is the Divine Apocalypse."
  • Lincoln Kirstein in New York Times
    And in the role of the servant girl, whom Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet with Balanchine, described as "Dulcinea as Ideal Woman, Repentant Magdalene, Innocent Shepherdess, Virgin of Seven Dolors," the choreographer cast...

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