fairmaid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mermaid from a blackwater creek or river.
Example Sentences
- "I go down to the punt-trench and I beg the water people. Help me, I say. I throw eggs — fresh eggs — in the black water. It was to feed the fairmaids."
- "The only trouble was that he had to pass a koker, and people said that at night when everyone was asleep and the moon had gone in, the fairmaids came out to sit on the koker to comb their long hair."
- "Traditionally, fairmaids transform mediocrity into genius. Goodison's female persona presents a facade of hesitancy; she appears to negate her powers: "It is difficult at first, learning to breathe below water / to convert the lungs meant only for inhalation on earth""
- "Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing."
- "...fairmaids of February, white ladies and Candlemas bells, which surely deserved a hearing."
- "These February fairmaids, closely linked with ancient church traditions, still grow naturally in profusion at many monastic sites."