fauns

Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

From The Verge • Sep. 10, 2019

There was torn wallpaper in all the rooms and columns with fauns playing pan flutes in the hallways.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2017

The others at Camp Jupiter saw him as a traveling oddball, about as harmless as the fauns.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan