amoretto

1. (art) A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).Examples: "1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman, London: Francis Constable, Chapter 12, “Andreas Orgagna,” p. 131, One of his best peeces he wrought in Pisa, which was all sorts of worldly and sensuall Epicures, rioting and banquetting vnder the shaddow of an Orenge tree, within the branches and bowes whereof, sly little Amorettos or Cupids, shooting at sundry Ladies lasciuiously dancing and dallying amongst them […]"; "[…] a golden Eden of Joy, of bliss and marital raptures surrounded by choiring throngs of rosy amoretti […]"; "He was enchanted by the architecture of the city. Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows."