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Definition of Herdesses
1. herdess [n] - See also: herdess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herdesses
Literary usage of Herdesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"The last act is chiefly taken up with discussions of the same subjects by the
same shepherds and shep- herdesses, and an account of the visit to the mother ..."
2. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... ^™^t1™a]of herdesses with their actions and passions, which must be such as
may agree with their natures, at least not exceeding former fictions and ..."
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