"centauresque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Gérard Gavarry, Jane Kuntz, Making a Novel, page 60:",
          "text": "More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys.",
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          "ref": "1911, \"The Centaurs\", The Nation: Volume 92, page 212:",
          "text": "Here they take on their true centauresque form, each one mounting a hired courser and clattering through the town in the direction of the Wood of Verrières.",
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          "ref": "2007, Patricia Kathleen Page, Zailig Pollock, The Filled Pen: Selected Non-fiction, page 68:",
          "text": "Message and method merge, centauresque, to assist him.",
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          "ref": "1993, Albert Russell Ascoli, Victoria Ann Kahn, Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature, page 252:",
          "text": "Machiavelli begins chapter 26 by asking if the times are right for a \"new prince\" in Italy, one \"prudente e virtuoso,\" like Borgia, like the profeta armato, like the hybrid centauresque monster to be composed of Machiavelli's counsel and Medicean power.",
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          "ref": "1863, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Greek Christian poets and the English poets, page 160:",
          "text": "We are of opinion in any way, that the grace is more obvious than the strength ; and there may be something centauresque and of twofold nature in their rushing mutabilities, and changes on passion and weakness.",
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