faun
noun
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
faunlike
-
a word derived from
faun.
Example Sentences
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His calling card is a soulful fragility, all faunlike bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
In it, a “classical” couple is pitted against a “modern” pair, then they change partners, and the ballerina dances a long fluid pas de deux with the faunlike modern-dance man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2010
The heart of the work is the pas de deux by the ballerina and the modern dance man, in which his faunlike primitivism is tamed by, but also incorporated into, her fluid expansiveness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
As he plays, his faunlike face registers emotion like a mass of exposed nerve ends, winces in a spasm of pain when he hits one of his rare wrong notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A whole flock of sheep, newly raddled, and faunlike shepherds lying in the shade opposite.
From The Spirit of Rome by Vernon Lee
