cherubim
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In the art of the Renaissance, cherubim (or cherubs) are depicted as chubby babies with wings. Hence, a person with a chubby, childlike face may be called “cherubic.”
God is often described in the Old Testament as sitting on a throne supported by cherubim.
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Song floats through “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” like hovering cherubim.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
There is no end of hand-wringing over careerists who forgo the delights of cherubim in favor of corporate paychecks, but careful interrogations of parenthood are few and far between.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
In one passage, a prophet called Ezekiel describes a "vision of God being transported on cherubim", with four wings and "feet shaped like the sole of a calf's foot".
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2021
She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2018
All around me are the cherubim, seraphim, continually crying “Holy, holy, holy,” the angels, archangels, that sort of thing.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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