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Origin of cherubic
Explanation
Use the word cherubic to describe someone with a round face and an air of sweetness, whether you’re talking about a cute cooing baby or your innocent-looking, round-faced 40-year-old brother. The word cherubic, pronounced "CHAIR-uh-bick," is used to describe someone who looks like a cherub, a baby-like angel you’ve probably seen in Renaissance paintings. Today, you don’t have to be divine, winged, or even a child to be described as cherubic. The word describes those who have a rosy, childlike innocence and a sweet, pleasing roundness.
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Example Sentences
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The two were playing Fu Dao Le, whose theme can only be described as Cherubic Chinese Babies.
From The Verge • May 6, 2015
Cherubic Bill Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cherubic, go-getting First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill observed the kissing match from a balcony.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cherubic, soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures.
From Time Magazine Archive
They do not purify the passions through terror as is done by Lear or Macbeth, and they are much inferior in majesty to the Cherubic trumpets blowing martial sound of Milton.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
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