water nymph
Example Sentences
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The masque’s subject is problematic: Some beautiful African water nymphs—portrayed by the queen and her ladies-in-waiting in blackface—wish to travel to Britain to be made white.
She imagined a climactic moment in which Medusa confronts Athena and asks the goddess why she, the victim, was unjustly punished, and added a noncanonical love affair between Medusa and a female water nymph.
From New York Times
The word “Nyad” is a derivation of “naiad,” the water nymph from Greek mythology.
From Los Angeles Times
Her hair in bangs, her huge eyes echoing those of Christy’s water nymph, she looks just as romantic as the art.
From New York Times
“On the Tollense trade route, with Nordic amber, a traveler offered up her amulet to the local water nymphs for further good luck on the voyage,” Dr. Kaul said.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
