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sea monk

noun

Definitions

  1. Monk seal.

  2. A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled…

    A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.

    • Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...

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