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putto

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put·to  (pt)
n. pl. put·ti (-t)
A representation of a small child, often naked and having wings, used especially in the art of the European Renaissance.
[Italian, boy, from Vulgar Latin *puttus, from Latin putus; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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It is not that I am without the wish; but you know how impossible my father would deem it that James should putto for such a purpose.
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