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  • noun Plural form of minotaur.

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Examples

  • Compared to Crowden's mega-OTT turn, the dreadful looking 'minotaurs' on display looked like the epitome of Ken Loach style naturalism.

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2009

  • Compared to Crowden's mega-OTT turn, the dreadful looking 'minotaurs' on display looked like the epitome of Ken Loach style naturalism.

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2009

  • I can't help but wonder if associating their "God of War, but with demons instead of minotaurs" brawler with Dante's Inferno was just something the Visceral team did to get the greenlight from EA's upper echelons.

    Welcome To Hell SVGL 2009

  • That's what happens when you grow up in Crete taming minotaurs.

    A sports hero's all-American tragedy Steven V. Roberts 2010

  • Being another story set in the "Orm the Beautiful"'verse, this one a little more Victorian in tone, and involving not so much dragons, but more Elgin Marbles and minotaurs.

    Cat Vs. Monkey: Scorecard so far today... ellen_datlow 2008

  • I was cursed with immortality, to wander the new Earth and live amongst its life without the truth of fairies, elves, minotaurs and even trolls.

    The Theory 2010

  • In a desperate effort to find a trendy new fantasy subgenre to succeed the ebbing vampire craze, Razorbill Books executive Graham Childress decided this week to throw all his professional weight behind a new series of novels featuring minotaurs, the bull-headed, human-bodied creatures of ancient Greek mythology.

    The Onion: 'Minotaurs The New Vampires' Says Publishing Executive Desperate To Find New Vampires 2010

  • In Buford's telling, Oklahoma sounds like ancient Crete, and the animals could have been minotaurs.

    A sports hero's all-American tragedy Steven V. Roberts 2010

  • This show is in part devoted to pleasure? with paintings of and for children, with a suntanned terracotta pot wearing a painted-on bikini, with the famous sculpture of a baboon whose face is a real, toy car, and with Picasso's bestiary of bulls, goats, minotaurs and priapic old satyrs.

    Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945-62) 2010

  • In a desperate effort to find a trendy new fantasy subgenre to succeed the ebbing vampire craze, Razorbill Books executive Graham Childress decided this week to throw all his professional weight behind a new series of novels featuring minotaurs, the bull-headed, human-bodied creatures of ancient Greek mythology.

    The Onion: 'Minotaurs The New Vampires' Says Publishing Executive Desperate To Find New Vampires The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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