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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

Ancient Egyptians had the Sphinx, a human-lion-falcon mashup akin to mythical Greco-Roman centaurs and fauns.

From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2022

On a technical level, are the fauns are the toughest creature makeup for the actors?

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

The fauns had also taken advantage of the chaos.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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