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
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
I always thought when Gram talked about magic, she meant fairies and fauns and forest trolls.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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