shepherdess
Female sheep minder
A shepherdess is a woman who tends sheep.
The word appears mainly in pastoral literature and art, evoking an idealized rural life: The painting showed a shepherdess with her flock.
In modern usage, shepherd serves for both sexes, making shepherdess somewhat old-fashioned.
Animals gathered together
- crookBent implement or criminal
- sheepdogDog bred for herding
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
- lambingEwes delivering offspring
ewes · rams · grazing · livestock · wool · shearing · sheepfold · tending
Idyllically rural
- idyllicPerfectly peaceful and charming
- sylvanOf or like forests
- rusticRural and unrefined
- picturesqueVisually pleasing, paintable
countryside · rural · peaceful · meadow · tranquil · Virgil · eclogue · golden age
Nature spirit or larva
- dryadTree-dwelling nature spirit
- faerieMythical small spirit
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- fableMoral tale with animals
ballad · tale · minstrel · bard · storytelling · folktale · spinner · enchantment
flock
Animals gathered together
lambing · ewes · rams · grazing · livestock · wool · shearing · sheepfold · tending · collie
bucolic
Idyllically rural
picturesque · countryside · rural · peaceful · meadow · tranquil · Virgil · eclogue · golden age · innocence
nymph
Nature spirit or larva
fable · ballad · tale · minstrel · bard · storytelling · folktale · spinner · enchantment · myth
milkmaid
Female dairy worker
- smallholderFarmer of limited land
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- farmerOne who cultivates land
rancher · sharecropper · hand · shearer · grower · harvester · tiller · cowboy · swineherd · stockman
watchful
Carefully attentive, observant
- vigilantKeenly aware of danger
- protectiveServing to guard
- caretakerOne who maintains property
keeper · warden · tending · nurturing · defender · safeguarding · overseer · custodian · steward
- Andersen TalesThe Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, The Wild Swans, The Nightingale
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, hired hand, field hand, farm laborer
- femaleswoman, girl, lady, mother, daughter
- French countrysidefarmhouse, village, hamlet, lavender field, lavender fields
- Shepherdingcrook, flock, sheepdog, sheepfold, ewe
- pastoralflocks, meadows, pastoral scenes, idylls, grazing cattle