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" Mermaid " is the second single from Japanese pop singer Hitomi Shimatani's fifth studio album, Heart & Symphony , and her eighteenth single overall. "Mermaid" is described as a mixture between dance, pop, and has some presumably gothic undertones due ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., mermayde , literally "maid of the sea," from Middle English mere "sea, lake" (see mere (n.)) + maid . Old English had equivalent merewif "water-witch" (see wife ), meremenn "mermaid, siren." Tail-less in northern Europe; the fishy form is a medieval ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mermaid \Mer"maid\, n. [AS. mere lake, sea. See Mere lake, and maid .] A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this ...
Usage examples of mermaid.
He had told the mermaid story over half the town already, but no story was truly told until it was told in the Fishing Moon.
She sang in some strange mermaid tongue, unknown to me and unknown, likely, to any living man.
You know yourselves of the ancient oaken chair in Talland Church, with the mermaid carved upon its side.
Some say that a mermaid is a symbol of vanity and lust, sins of which man must ever be wary.
If the mermaid was not a lure or distraction, then she could be used to frighten Foweather from his course.
As long as he was stunned by his sighting, as long as they could keep him fascinated by the possibility that a mermaid lurked offshore, they might be able to either push or pull him where they pleased.
We have him all but convinced that this mermaid has come to shore in search of a husband.
If we had you to sing the role of mermaid at specific times, we could ensure that no one got caught and sent to jail.
For all her repulsion at the idea of playing a bare-breasted mermaid, even worse was the idea of going back to Bugg.
Hilde still refused to give her approval to it, but when Konstanze started making her own designs for a mermaid costume, the maid had been unable to resist taking charge.
There was not a bare bosom to be seen, each and every mermaid modestly covered.
If any of you accidentally let on that the mermaid is anything but real, it is liable to fall apart.
Have you ever once seen a depiction of a mermaid where you did not see both her nipples?
Tom cued her to stop singing and then gave another of those splashes of the oar against the water, as if the mermaid were diving.
Preventive boat drew closer, the voices of the men hushed, growing more uncertain as the minutes ticked by with no mermaid song.