1. small cupids or cherubs, especially as depicted in art
Usage: art; plural form
2. a sequence of love sonnets, especially referring to Edmund Spenser’s work
Usage: literary; capitalized when referring to Spenser’s work

Examples

• The Renaissance painting featured delicate amoretti floating among the clouds.
• Baroque churches often displayed amoretti carved in marble around the altar.
• The ceiling fresco was adorned with playful amoretti holding garlands of flowers.
• Students studied Spenser’s Amoretti as an example of Elizabethan sonnet sequences.
• The artist painted tiny amoretti in the corners of the religious scene.
• Art historians noted the influence of Italian amoretti in Northern European paintings.