aureole
noun
a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
aureola
-
a variation of
aureole.
Example Sentences
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
My head swam with a whirl of strange thoughts, and Bethulah, already divine to me, took on a dazzling aureola, sailed away into some strange supernatural ether.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
She carried with her a sort of pyrotechnic aureola, suspended below her car by a wire, which she was to set off in the air.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne
“I will remember,” he said, looking up to meet the pleading eyes of the Child: but, lo! the whole face had melted into the aureola; nothing was left but light.
From Fairy Book by Sophie May
This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by Servius to be "the luminous fluid which encircles the heads of the gods."
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
