Brewer's: 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
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