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Mermaid [with Heralds]
Mermaid [with Heralds] tho’ there may perhaps be some animals in the sea, that may bear some resemblance to what is found in coat armour; yet, as
they are painted in some beearings, as Gules, a Mermaid proper, attiring herself with her comb and glass, they are suppos’d to be only fancies of painters.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Meˊrmaid *
Mermaids