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means A chubby, winged, baby-faced angel in art — or, originally, a powerful celestial being of a quite different and stranger order.

from From Hebrew 'kərūḇ' (plural 'kərūḇīm'), a winged guardian figure whose exact root is uncertain — possibly related to an Akkadian word for a protective spirit. The Bible describes cherubim as fearsome, multi-winged throne-guardians, not babies. The soft, pudgy toddler image came much later, from Renaissance painters who borrowed the chubby winged-child look of classical putti and pasted the biblical name onto it.