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Adam Cupid
i.e., Archer Cupid, perhaps with allusion to Adam
Bell, the celebrated archer. (See Percy's Reliques, vol. i., p.
7.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Adam Cupid from Infoplease:
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