putto
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of putto
1635–45; < Italian: literally, boy < Latin putus
Example Sentences
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Unlike the soft, pliable versions of the Christ child in his early Madonnas, this is a monumental, muscular putto, using his strength to hold that garland aloft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
The view consisted of a rectangular, tiled pool hedged with silvery artemisia bushes; at one end stood a garden-gnome lump of a reproduction putto, coyly peeing into the water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same tendencies are to be noted in the bronze putto at the Bargello.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Thayr surnames be putto lest any man hereafter shuld vsurpe any D iiij.cause of thayr prayse.
From The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion by Erasmus, Desiderius
And his beautiful putto, boy and dolphin, are loved by everyone.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
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