merknight
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editmerknight (plural merknights)
- (fantasy) A merperson knight.
- 1967, Bridget Ann Henisch, Medieval Armchair Travels, Carnation Press (1967), page 38:
- […] while merknights in full armour give their own demonstration of fishy combat tactics.
- 2009, Graeme Rimer, Thom Richardson, J.P.D. Cooper, editors, Henry VIII: Arms and the Man, 1509-2009, Royal Armouries, →ISBN, page 151:
- It is etched and gilded overall, the themes of the decoration including, on the leg defences, the labours of Hercules, and on the upper half a merknight and mermaid, supplemented with elephants and castles, and various putti and animals.
- 1967, Bridget Ann Henisch, Medieval Armchair Travels, Carnation Press (1967), page 38: