cherub

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Donald stooped and lifted the tike to his shoulder, marveling the while that such a cherub could be the product of any of the denizens of the Sawdust Pile.

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  1. noun A winged celestial being.
  2. noun Christianity The second of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
  3. noun A representation of a small angel, portrayed as a child with a chubby rosy face.
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  • He looked like a cherub, a salesman in a bakery, a little fat Santa Claus in a department store. —  141 - Satan Black
  • As if hiding them from sight, Max maneuvered his bulk before the younger children --cherub-faced Roy Boyd, Rough Neck, Julie, Cinnamon and the others. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • She had a face like a cherub, and had shown him all over the Station when he arrived. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • The child was beautiful as a cherub, the mother sweet and fair as ever, nor a day older in appearance than while yet a girl in her father's house She found him sole occupant of the room, pacing to and fro with downcast eyes and troubled countenance. —  Elsie's Womanhood
  • Donald stooped and lifted the tike to his shoulder, marveling the while that such a cherub could be the product of any of the denizens of the Sawdust Pile. —  Kindred of the Dust
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin, from Hebrew kərûb; see krb in Semitic roots.

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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish cherub (in Roman in diminutive form: see cherubin), from Late Latin cherub, plural cherubim, from Hebrew k′rūbh, plural k′rūbhīm, a cherub: supposed to be of foreign origin; connected by some with Assyrian kirubu, a name of the steer-god, the winged guardian at the entrance of Assyrian palaces. The plural cherubim occurs earlier in the accommodation form cherubin. A double English plural cherubims occurs in the Bible and elsewhere.
 

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