All 14 Uses of
Cupid
in
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- They upset a little china cupid who had hitherto stood alone on the desk except for the candlesticks.†
Chpt 12Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- The china cupid, sir, that stands on the writing-table.
Chpt 12 *Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
- 'What a confounded nuisance,' said Maxim; 'that cupid is worth a hell of a lot.†
Chpt 12Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- The fact is I broke that cupid when I was in the morning-room yesterday.†
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- Apparently Mrs de Winter broke the cupid herself and forgot to say anything,' said Maxim.†
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- I was just arranging those books on the desk, to see if they would stand, and the cupid slipped.†
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- This all began because I broke the cupid in the morning-room.†
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- If I hadn't broken the cupid none of this would have happened.†
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- 'Oh, damn that infernal cupid,' said Maxim wearily.†
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- I suppose the cupid was put there then?†
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- He is thinking about the cupid.†
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- Perhaps he came into the room, and she was kneeling on the floor, wrenching open the little crate in which the cupid was packed.†
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- And she then would have plunged her hand down into the shavings and brought out the cupid who stood on one foot, his bow in his hand.†
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- We'll have it in the morning-room,' she must have said, and he must have knelt down beside her, and they must have looked at the cupid together.†
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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.