All 4 Uses of
Cupid
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- The rosebushes out back by the little cupid?†
Chpt 21 *Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- She's pretending to be my mother, someone named Sarah Rees-Toome who lives in a cottage with a cupid out back, when my own mother was Virginia Doyle, a woman who never once set foot in Surrey.†
Chpt 21
- A figurine of a little cupid sits inside an alcove under the stairs.†
Chpt 28
- Brigid holds up a statuette of the world's ugliest cancan dancer, formerly a cupid with breasts.†
Chpt 28
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.