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fauns

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  1. The Roman name for satyrs, mythical creatures who were part man and part goat.


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But little actually felt contemporary in this lollipops program of swans and fauns that, musically at least, might have been one of those old-timey Hollywood Bowl “Rhapsody Under the Stars.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2022

He has begun the long work of cataloging the statues who inhabit each room, classical-style representations of fauns, men fighting beasts, or children at play.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2020

Everybody has in the back of their mind the idea of fauns as lecherous forest creatures or fairies as deceitful shape-shifters.

From The Verge Sep. 10, 2019

The Fae folk — faeries, fauns, centaurs, trolls and such — are refugees from their war-torn homeland Tirnanoc, but they’ve found little welcome in the neo-Victorian steampunk city of The Burgue.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2019

“Should we cover it up? If the fauns find it...”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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