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  • noun Plural form of cherubin.

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Examples

  • Fanciful sweet cherubins hold hands around its steeple base, while Mistress (or Mad) Carlotta's crown provides the spire.

    Puerto Vallarta: where the art of life thrives! 2003

  • Fanciful sweet cherubins hold hands around its steeple base, while Mistress (or Mad) Carlotta's crown provides the spire.

    Puerto Vallarta: where the art of life thrives! 2003

  • There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see truly.

    Act III. Scene II. Troilus and Cressida 1914

  • Samuel sometimes rose at night to watch the heavens, and he fancied he heard the voices of the "young-eyed cherubins."

    Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864

  • "C'est que les anges aiment bien les petits cherubins, and my mother is an angel, seest thou," cries Florac, kissing her.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • “C’est que les anges aiment bien les petits cherubins, and my mother is an angel, seest thou,” cries

    The Newcomes 2006

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