enhalo

American  

[en-hay-loh] / ɛnˈheɪ loʊ /

verb (used with object)

enhaloed, enhaloing

1. to surround with or as with a halo.

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Etymology

Origin of enhalo

First recorded in 1835–45; en- ¹ + halo

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Example Sentences

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enhaloed

A shudder runs through all around— Distinctly as in light of day, at topmost window from the ground Sweet Flossie stands, her golden hair enhaloed now by firelit air.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various

This made the flower enhaloed with sentiment and mystery, which charmed as much as its beauty.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

In distant lands enhaloed by old fame Thou found'st the only chain the spirit knew, But, captive, led'st thy captors from the shame Of ancient freedom, to the pride of new.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various

He saw Hoopdriver walk slowly across the gateway, his head enhaloed in cigarette smoke, and pass out of sight up the street.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen overnight, just as death had overtaken them.

From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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