shepherdesses

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• shepherdesses — shep·herd || ʃepÉ™(r)d n. one who tends and herds sheep; spiritual leader, clergyman v. tend and herd sheep; lead, guide, direct shep·herd·ess || ʃepÉ™(r)dɪs n. woman who tends and guards sheep …   English contemporary dictionary

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• Shepherd — A shepherd is a person who tends to, feeds, or guards sheep, especially in flocks. The word may also refer to one who provides religious guidance, as a pastor. History Shepherding is one of the oldest professions, beginning some 6,000 years ago… …   Wikipedia

• King Arthur (opera) — King Arthur or, The British Worthy (Z. 628), is an opera in five acts composed by Henry Purcell to a libretto by John Dryden. The opera was first performed at the Queen s Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June of 1691 [ The… …   Wikipedia

• Four Times of the Day — is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth. Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and …   Wikipedia

• The Shepherd's Paradise — was a Caroline era masque, written by Walter Montagu and designed by Inigo Jones. Acted in 1633 by Queen Henrietta Maria and her ladies in waiting, it was noteworthy as the first masque in which the Queen and her ladies filled speaking roles.… …   Wikipedia

• Gavaudan — [His Occitan name is also found as Gavaudas in the accusative and, by extension, Gavauda in the nominative. Eighteenth and nineteenth century French scholarship used to call him le Vieux (the Old), but there is no basis for this.] (fl. c. 1195… …   Wikipedia

• Sèvres porcelain — French hard paste, or true, porcelain, as well as soft paste porcelain, made at the royal (now national) factory of Sèvres from 1756 until the present. After the decline of Meissen porcelain after 1756, Sèvres became the leading porcelain factory …   Universalium

• Et in arcadia ego —    In English, also in Arcadia I am. Arcadia is the land of milk and honey of Virgil s Eclogues where shepherds and shepherdesses frolic about. Et in Arcadia Ego is the topic of a painting by Guercino rendered in c. 1618 (Rome, Galleria Nazionale …   Dictionary of Renaissance art

• JETHRO — (Heb. יֶתֶר ,יִתְרוֹ), Midianite priest and father in law of moses . Jethro had seven daughters who served as his shepherdesses. When Moses fled from Egypt he came to the well in Midian where he witnessed local shepherds mistreating the girls. He …   Encyclopedia of Judaism