Meaning of cherubless | Babel Free

Definitions

Lacking cherubs (in various senses).

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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