(n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
(n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(2) She now sits on the executive committee of Centaur Media Plc.
(3) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(4) 2016 has seen Suki activate her entrepreneurial transformative leadership with her own business, when she led Oystercatchers into partnership with business innovator, Centaur Media to create an international leading consultancy in the marketing sector.
(5) On 30 May 1971, Mariner 9 was dispatched to Mars on an Atlas Centaur rocket and in November that year slipped into orbit around the Red Planet.
(6) She believes that the core audience that reads Centaur's business-to-business titles – which include Creative Review and Marketing Week – is well-placed to cash in on advertisers wanting relatively affluent, educated readers.
(7) A s unlikely-sounding hybrids go, a fun protest against hunger in the developing world must rank up there with the centaur and the griffin.
(8) Gandharan art used motifs borrowed from classical Roman art, with its vine scrolls, cherubs and centaurs, but its principal icon was a handsome, languid, meditating Buddha, dressed in a Greek toga.
(9) Like Rich and Byng-Maddick, Centaur Media's chief executive Andria Vidler is new to the job and has not pulled her punches.
Satyr
Definition:
(n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
(n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
(n.) The orang-outang.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he laughed – which was a lot – he looked like an elderly satyr.
(2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(3) Picasso is wheeled on too, but his print of a satyr contemplating a nymph is a homage to Rembrandt, not Rubens.
(4) The director of the notorious 1991 French folly Les amants du Pont-Neuf has been away from feature films for more than a decade, and returned at Cannes with the nuttiest offering on display, featuring that wonderful French actor Denis Lavant – part acrobat, part mime artist, part satyr – as Monsieur Oscar, who plays 11 different parts, changing in the back of a white limo as it glides around Paris from one rendezvous to another.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(6) Did I actually fancy this rather strange little satyr of a man in his funny heels?
(7) Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation.
(8) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
(9) My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr.
(10) Here, however, the brilliant craftsman Riccio imagines a satyr couple, tenderly embracing in some balmy woodland nook.
(11) However, in a few species, including the ostrich, rheas, kiwis, some tinamous, the red-throated loon, screamers, the satyr tragopan, the great bustard, and the pin-tailed sandgrouse, the ceca are sacculated or have diverticula.
(12) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.
(13) The proband shows the full spectrum of anomalies, including imperforate anus, prominent perineal raphe, rectoperineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial hexadactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly, preauricular protuberances, hypoplastic satyr ears, sensorineural hearing loss and urorenal anomalies.