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cherubless en · ADJ

Etymology

From cherub + -less.

Meanings

1. Lacking cherubs (in various senses).
   • It reminds Nick of the baths in Greenwich where he learnt to swim: that mixture of closeness and distance; sounds of strangers echoing and dying across a cherubless, unfrescoed dome; and then the brothy smell of oxtail trickling from the drinks machine afterwards. 2007, Tom McCarthy, Men in Space, Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 31:
   • Above the mantelpiece hung an oval gilt, mercifully cherubless mirror and placed at various intervals on the walls, were a couple of landscapes and a still life – an assortment of vegetables on a table with a very dead pheasant hanging forlornly over the edge. 2017, Marilyn Messik, Witch Dust, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 103:
   • Now, although the Journal feels no personal responsibility in the matter, it will undertake to persuade the stork that in the future it is imperative that he give a little careful study to his own vocation and bring a little cheer (cherubs) to some of our cheerless (cherubless) homes. 1916 December 22, “Our Prediction True”, in The Rice Belt Journal, volume XVII, number 29, Welsh, L.A.: J.R. Rountree, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

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