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Cupid|ˈkjuːpɪd|
In 4–6 Cupide, -yde; also Cupido, -ydo.
[ad. L. Cupīdo, personification of cupīdo desire, love (see 2 below), f. cupĕre to desire. Cf. OF. Cupido (mod.F. Cupidon). F. has had cupide adj. = L. cupidus from 15th c.]
1. a. In Roman Mythology, the god of love, son of Mercury and Venus, identified with the Greek Eros. Also in pl. (after L. Cupīdines, Gr. Ἔρωτες). Hence, a representation of the god; a beautiful young boy.
to look for Cupids in the eyes: cf. baby 3.
c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 652, I wol noght serve Venus ne Cupyde [rime betyde]. c1384― H. Fame i. 137 Hir dowves and dan Cupido, Hir blinde sone. 1548Hall Chron. 194 b, Heated with the darte of Cupido. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 97 The violent force of Cupids artillerie. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iv. 89 Her Andirons..were two winking Cupids Of Siluer. 1612Drayton Polyolb. ii. (1753) 862 (N.) The Naiads..braid his verdant locks, While in their crystal eyes he doth for Cupids look. 1710Pope Windsor For. 297 In the same shades the Cupids tun'd his lyre. 1713Guardian No. 103 Venus stood by him..with numberless cupids on all sides of her. 1848Dickens Dombey v, Is he not a Cupid, Sir?
b. Cupid's bow, designation of a shape or outline resembling the double-curved bow of Cupid. Cupid's dart, (a) the popular name for a variety of Catananche; cupidone; (b) (also Cupid's arrows) (see quots. 1884, 1910).
[1858Lytton What will he do with It? III. vi. vi. 165 Evil passions had destroyed the outline of the once beautiful lips, arched as a Cupid's bow.] 1875T. Seaton Fret Cutting 139 It gives the lip that shape called Cupid's Bow. 1884E. W. Streeter Precious Stones & Gems (ed. 4) 292/3 The brilliant hair-brown needles of Rutile, penetrating the crystal in all directions, impart a curious appearance to the stone, and such specimens are often cut for brooches, under the name of Flèches d'Amour, or ‘Cupid's arrows’, or ‘Venus's Hair-Stone’. 1904B. von Hutten Pam iv. viii, He's a sweetly pretty youth..with a cupid's-bow mouth. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 272/1 This form of the mineral [göthite] has long been known as onegite, and the crystals enclosing it are cut for ornamental purposes under the name of ‘Cupid's darts’ (flèches d'amour). 1910–11H. Cescinsky Eng. Furnit. 18th Cent. II. 246 Figs. 249 and 250 are instructive in exhibiting the evolution of the true ‘Cupid's bow’ top rail. 1929J. L. Hodson Grey Dawn i. i, Big brown eyes, cupid's bow mouth and broad forehead. 1930L. H. & E. Z. Bailey Hortus 127/1 Catananche. Cupids-Dart... Herbaceous annuals and perennials with narrow leaves borne near base of stem and longstalked blue or yellow heads. 1935E. J. Salisbury Living Garden viii. 127 The dry grassy banks of southern Europe have given us Cupid's Dart (Catananche coerulea)..brought to this country at the end of the sixteenth century. 1938‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders ix. 167 She touched up her mouth, curving the cupid's bow well above the natural contour of her upper lip. 1962R. Webster Gems I. x. 163 When the enclosed crystals are long hair-like needles of red or golden-coloured rutile the material is called rutilated quartz... Other more popular names such as ‘Venus hair stone’, ‘Cupid's darts’ and ‘Flêches d'amour’ are applied to the material. 1969Gloss. Terms Dentistry (B.S.I.) 44 ‘Cupid's bow’ operation, a procedure to re-adjust the vermilion border..of the upper lip into the classical Cupid's bow conformation.
†2. Love, desire. [L. cupīdo.] Obs. rare—1.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 624 The cok confesseth emynent cupide When he his gemmy tail begynneth splay.
3. Comb. † Cupid-struck, smitten with love.
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