CHERUB

[noun] [C] [plural] cherubs or [formal] cherubim - an angel that is represented in art as a beautiful, rather fat naked child with small wingsThe wooden chest was overlaid with gold and painted with cherubs.She has a cherub-like face (= a round, pretty face like that of a child).(informal approving) A beautiful child is sometimes called a cherub.My brother had such a sweet, innocent face when he was young that my mother called him her cherub.