centaur

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Other portraits feature a loser’s face on a shirtless firefighter sitting near a blaze, and another member’s image atop a centaur.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

For reasons that have yet to be explained, parts of the centaur head are coated with a thin brown film, as are several other marble fragments from the Parthenon.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Sagittarius is generally depicted as the Archer, a centaur holding a bow.

From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023

The art for his new show “Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist” depicts him as a centaur.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2020

She rose slowly up the side of the centaur; when she was level with its chest she reached into the branches for the ball, but it was stuck deep inside.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs