faun
- n ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
- But his appeal, and the cult of this dying faun, spans the decades.
- A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's .
- Though others assure me that he has changed past recognition, I still see him as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by conventional apparel.