: a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish
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Available in 15 styles, including unicorns, dinosaurs, mermaids, and whales, these shoes have a heel tab to help kiddos get them on all by themselves.
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Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 6 June 2024
The event will be full of fun and imagination, including bouncy castles, storytelling, unicorn petting corral, meeting a mermaid, photos with a princess, a 66-foot dragon slide, castle, obstacle course and more.
—Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Denver Post, 4 June 2024
The song plays as guests in boats pass among 240 dolls of many nations with identical faces — tiny can-can and folk dancers, mermaids and mariachi bands — plus Big Ben, the Taj Mahal and grinning farm animals.
—Anita Gates, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Gabrielle Union-Wade looked like a mermaid last night at the most iconic fashion event of the year, The Met Gala.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 7 May 2024
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Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 6 June 2024
The event will be full of fun and imagination, including bouncy castles, storytelling, unicorn petting corral, meeting a mermaid, photos with a princess, a 66-foot dragon slide, castle, obstacle course and more.
—Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Denver Post, 4 June 2024
The song plays as guests in boats pass among 240 dolls of many nations with identical faces — tiny can-can and folk dancers, mermaids and mariachi bands — plus Big Ben, the Taj Mahal and grinning farm animals.
—Anita Gates, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Gabrielle Union-Wade looked like a mermaid last night at the most iconic fashion event of the year, The Met Gala.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 7 May 2024
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mermaid
noun
mer·maid
ˈmər-ˌmād 
: an imaginary sea creature usually represented with a woman's body and a fish's tail
Etymology
Middle English mermayde "mermaid," from mere "lake, pool, sea" and mayde "maid"
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