All 3 Uses
Cupid
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding cake.†
Chpt 4
- He winced, and, taking up from the table an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, one of Lord Henry's many presents to him, glanced hurriedly into its polished depths.†
Chpt 7 *
- The curiously carved mirror that Lord Henry had given to him, so many years ago now, was standing on the table, and the white-limbed Cupids laughed round it as of old.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In earlier Greek mythology, Cupid was strikingly handsome.