amorino
Americannoun
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amorini
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of amorino
1855–60; < Italian, equivalent to amor ( e ) love ( see amoretto) + -ino diminutive suffix (< Latin -īnus adj. suffix)
Example Sentences
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Sebastian, George, and a bishop to the right—probably S. Louis of Toulouse: at the bottom a little lute-playing angel sits, flanked by two amorini on a lower level with white drapery.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Her eyes sought the monogram sculptured on the stone gate-pillars: 'E. L.' entwined in graceful curves on a rounded shield upheld by playful amorini.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
Note how he hangs his swags, and swings his amorini, from the horizontal borders.
From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee
Gods and goddesses were a necessary part of such compositions, and a continual playing among amorini, but such deities lived not upon Olympus, nor anywhere outside France of the Eighteenth Century.
From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee
The choir has a fine seventeenth-century wrought-iron grille with two amorini, a crown and heart, &c., interwoven with scrolls, gilded and painted.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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