Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little love; a cupid.

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Examples

  • I think it sits close to your amorino, in the wonderful chic part of the marais (rue de Sicile?) 12: 34 PM

    A week in Paris.. Michele 2005

  • Thus perished, not without laughter and in a good cause, three archangels, two Dantés, a nondescript lady with brocade garments and a delectable amorino whose counterpart, the sole survivor, was reserved for a better fate -- being carried home and presented as a gift to my chambermaid.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • The ultra-realistic Bacchus seated on a Barrel, in the Gallery of the Hermitage at St. Petersburg, contains in the chief figure a pronounced reminiscence of Titian's picture; while the unconventional attitude of the amorino, or Bacchic figure, in attendance on the god, is imitated without alteration from that of the little toper whose action Vasari so explicitly describes.

    The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897

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  • A figure of Cupid.

    December 1, 2010