All 4 Uses of
Cupid
in
Howards End
- Much did she censure the attenuated Cupids who encircle the ceiling of the Queen's Hall, inclining each to each with vapid gesture, and clad in sallow pantaloons, on which the October sunlight struck.†
Part 5
- "How awful to marry a man like those Cupids!" thought Helen.†
Part 5
- Of the walls, one was occupied by the window, the other by a draped mantelshelf bristling with Cupids.†
Part 6 *
- He was renting the flat furnished; of all the objects that encumbered it none were his own except the photograph frame, the Cupids, and the books.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In earlier Greek mythology, Cupid was strikingly handsome.