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▪ I. faun Myth.|fɔːn|
Also 6–7 fawn.
[ad. L. Faun-us, proper name of a god or demigod worshipped by shepherds and farmers, and identified with the Gr. Pan; also in pl. fauni (cf. Gr. Πᾶνες), a class of similar deities. (Chaucer's fauny is the L. plural.)]
1. One of a class of rural deities; at first represented like men with horns and the tail of a goat, afterwards with goats' legs like the Satyrs, to whom they were assimilated in lustful character.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1544 On satiry and fawny more and lesse, Þat halue goddes ben of wildernesse. c1386― Knt.'s T. 2070 Nimphes, Faunes, and Amadriades. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 77 Here han the holy Faunes resourse. 1631Massinger Emp. East iii. iii, The poets' dreams of lustful fauns and satyrs. 1728Swift Let. 14 Sept. in Wks. (1841) II. 105 The muses and the fawns..will crown you with joy. 1830Scott Demonol. iv, These silvans, satyrs and fauns. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxviii, Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast.
2. attrib. and Comb., as faun-breeze, faun-face; faun-faced, faun-like, faun-loved, faun-twinkling adjs.
1925E. Sitwell Troy Park 44 The elegant faun-breeze.
a1930D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) 16 His face is a faun-face, not deadened by morals.
Ibid. 17 They can't survive, the faun-faced men.
1902W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 75 The faun-like feet. 1962I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxxiv. 325 That particular faun-like grace which fades later.
1881Wilde Poems 69 Faun-loved Heliconian glades.
1929Blunden Near & Far 64 Sunshine of vital gold, faun-twinkling groves.
▪ II. faun
obs. form of fawn. |