aureoles
- plural of aureole.
Example Sentences
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What remains are assembled pieces of natural wood — here, lengthy shims and wedges — now glued together to form sunbursts and aureoles.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018
David Hertzberg’s “Ellébore” was a pretty little thing about a flower in the snow, with icy piano figures throwing off little cold aureoles of notes from the violins.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2017
When contact metamorphism occurs deeper in the Earth, metamorphism can be seen as rings of facies around the intrusion, resulting in aureoles.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Contact metamorphic aureoles are typically quite small, from just a few centimetres around small dykes and sills, to as much as 100 m around a large stock.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
In a dream The streets that narrow to the westward gleam Like rows of golden palaces; and high From all the crowded chimneys tower and die A thousand aureoles.
From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald
