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Definition of Mermaids
1. mermaid [n] - See also: mermaid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mermaids
Literary usage of Mermaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE CAPTAIN AND THE mermaids ISING a legend of the sea, So hard-a-port upon your
lee! A ship on starboard tack! She's bound upon a private cruise — (This is ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It is this creature which has probably given rise to the tales about mermaids/'
Mermaid. Mary Queen of Scots Mermaid's Glove [Chalina ..."
3. To the American Indian by Lucy Thompson (1916)
"OUR mermaids. THE Klamath Indians tell of the Mermaid that they said could be
seen at ... There was never more than two of these mermaids seen at a time, ..."
4. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"mermaids. mermaids seem to have gone out of fashion about the same time as the
dried heads of New Zealanders, but still I have been enabled to examine ..."
5. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"Of the Pictures of mermaids, Unicorns, and some others. FEW eyes have escaped
the picture of mermaids ;5 that is, according to Horace's monster, ..."
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