- plural of faun.
fauns
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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
Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2022
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
At dinner, we sit at a massive table carved along all four sides with images of piping fauns and dancing imps.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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