Mermaid

Definitions

1. A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
2. Coloured a brilliant turquoise.
3. A prostitute.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Search⟳ the depth, & ſee that variety of Sea monſters & fiſhes, Mare-maids, Sea men, Horſes, &c. which it affords.”

“People that are drowned, and whose bodies are not founds are believed to have⟳ been taken into the dwellings of the Mermaids.”

“a mermaid smoothie”

“mermaid ice-cream”

“A Gentleman or an honeſt Cittizen, ſhall not Sit⟳ in your pennie-bench Theaters, vvith his Squirrell by his ſide cracking nuttes; nor ſneake into a Tauerne vvith his Mermaid; but he ſhall be Satyr'd and Epigram'd vpon, and his humour muſt run⟳ vpo'th Stage⟳: […]”

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