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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

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

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 fauns had also taken advantage of the chaos.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan