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ne·re·is

 (nîr′ē-ĭs)
n. pl. ne·re·i·des (nə-rē′ĭ-dēz′)

[Latin Nērēïs, Nereid; see Nereid.]
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nereis

(ˈnɪərɪɪs)
n
(Animals) any polychaete worm of the genus Nereis. See ragworm
[C18: from Latin; see Nereid1]
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Dans le patio du pavillon des antiquites se trouvent deux mosaiques, la premiere represente des poissons et la seconde represente Scylla entouree de quatre nereides. On y trouve egalement des epitaphes et fragments de sepultures musulmanes de l'epoque ottomane.
Elsewhere in Burne-Jones's androgynous fantasy she plays both the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin of the Annunciation (1879); a female Persius who receives arms from her tripled self, the three Nereides, in order to rescue herself from a seamonster, although the chains are not fixed but loosely draped around her arms (1888).
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And should I view Unfetter'd, with the sound firm-judging mind, Imagination to return, arrayed In her once glowing vest, to thee my lyre Shall oft be tun'd, and to thy Nereides green Long, long unnoticed in their haunts retired.