Winged Horse

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. the constellation Pegasus.

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Example Sentences

“U / Rawls Slöja” tells the story of several different women suffering on the lowest rungs of their particular societies, while “Gymnasten” is about a gymnast who executes her routines perfectly and then, in a magical realist turn, flies into the sky on the back of a winged horse.

From The Wall Street Journal

The broom bolted forward like lightning, faster than a galloping horse...faster than a winged horse, even.

From Literature

Equine art lives in many airports: Seattle and San Francisco have bronze horses shaped like driftwood, Central Illinois has wire horses suspended from the ceiling, Tucson has a winged horse and Barcelona has a burly horse.

From New York Times

The winged horse is learning to be vulnerable, the fox wonders whether his mind is playing tricks on him, the lost boy is frightened and the mole is “lunging for cake” when life grows hard, Mackesy says.

From Washington Post

Located in the constellation Pegasus — named after the famous winged horse from Greek mythology — Stephan's Quintet is more or less what it sounds like: a group of five galaxies, with four of them constituting the first compact group of galaxies ever discovered.

From Salon