putti

Noun

putto (plural putti or (rare) puttos or (rare) puttoes)

1. A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
   • There is in the porch of the present church a tablet to Luke Flood (died 1818) which has much the appearance of having been made up of portions of earlier monuments. It is surmounted by a bas-relief of a winged boy holding an inverted torch. But not only is he a baby putto, not a youth, and without...1938, “1788: Piety Weeping at the Tomb of Benevolence, a Model of a Monument to be Erected in Whitechapel Church, to the Memory of Dr [Robert] Markham the Late Rector, at the Expence of His...