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Definition of Cupids
1. cupid [n] - See also: cupid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupids
Literary usage of Cupids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Arretine Pottery by George Henry Chase (1916)
"The spaces between the cupids are filled with heavy festoons of grapevine, ...
Below each of the cupids is a patera, decorated by a rosette, and above the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It represents a half-nude figure of Aphrodite reclining on a couch, with two
cupids behind holding up a veil, which was coloured blue to form a background ..."
3. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England by William Carew Hazlitt (1866)
"“J”HE Lovers quarrel: or cupids Triumph: being the pleasant. history of Fair
Rosamond of Scotland. Being daughter to the lord Arundel, whose love was ..."
4. Songs, Ballads and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest by William Allingham (1877)
"TNa grove I saw one day •*• A flight of cupids all at play, Flitting bird-like
through the air, Or alighting here and there, Making every bough rejoice With ..."
5. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1830)
"The termini are composed of Mars and Hercules, and they support a cornice enriched
with festoons of fruit and two cupids. 15 in. liy 15i in.—P. (about. ..."
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