bestiary
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The crew, who are near the end of a 65-year mission — suspended animation keeps them young and pretty — are transporting an extraterrestrial bestiary back to Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Naked mole-rats and blind mole-rats are now safely within the research bestiary.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2022
With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters.
From The Verge ● May 28, 2022
I returned to the table and flipped through the children’s book again before abandoning it for the bestiary.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The design may have come from medieval bestiaries, which were "the origin for JK Rowling's book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", said Helen Geake.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
The cartoonish, sometimes possessed looks of his creatures recall imagery from Japanese mythology and medieval bestiaries.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021
Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
She is a magpie, plucking language from myriad arenas: bestiaries, business documents, tourist pamphlets.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2016
However, a closer examination of Muggle bestiaries of that period demonstrates that most magical beasts either escaped Muggle notice completely or were mistaken for something else.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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