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A picture or image of the infant Jesus, swaddled (Italian, bambiʹno, a little boy). The most celebrated is that in the church of Sta. Maria, in the Ara Cœli of Rome.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.