gloriole
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gloriole
1805–15; < Latin glōriola, equivalent to glōri ( a ) glory + -ola -ole 1
Example Sentences
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O'er my head no golden gloriole Ever shall be proudly set For my knowledge of the oriole, Eagle, ibis, or egrette.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
It is terribly cold to be for the future labouring only for the gloriole, after flattering oneself for a while that one was working for the public weal.’
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John
I do not say this for my petite gloriole, but because it seems a part of my story to give the reader a measure of my juvenile ability.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
As a gloriole sign o' grace, Goldilocks, ah fall and flow, On the blooming, childlike face, Dimple, dimple, come and go.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
One served to explain the virtue most familiar to him—bienfaisance; and that irritable vanity which magnifies its ephemeral fame, the sage reduced to a mortifying diminutive—la gloriole!
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
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