: a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish
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Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
The walls were daubed with graffiti, including a full-breasted mermaid drawn in black marker, emerging from the waves to blow her apocalyptic trumpet.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
The focal point floor tiles, which look a bit like a mermaid fin sprung to life.
—Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
The bride — who is an attorney and runs her own estate planning practice, Bailey Legacy Law — wore a strapless mermaid gown designed by Berta.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
The walls were daubed with graffiti, including a full-breasted mermaid drawn in black marker, emerging from the waves to blow her apocalyptic trumpet.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
The focal point floor tiles, which look a bit like a mermaid fin sprung to life.
—Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
The bride — who is an attorney and runs her own estate planning practice, Bailey Legacy Law — wore a strapless mermaid gown designed by Berta.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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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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