nereid

Alternative letter-case form of Nereid.

A youthful and pretty bather.

I knew in the back of my mind that the “nereid” wore a bikini intended for photography and that she lived in that bikini all summer.

Alternative form of nereidid.

Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.