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faun
[fawn]
noun
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
faun
/ ɔː /
noun
(in Roman legend) a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs
Other 51Թ Forms
- faunlike adjective
- ˈڲܲˌ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of faun1
Example Sentences
Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.
“The certificate is a fake, ditto the signature, ditto the spelling, ditto the drawing,” she told The New York Times in reference to one of the works, a drawing of a faun.
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.”
I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk.
One was a faun—no, Jason thought—a satyr.
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