nimbi
- plural of nimbus.
Example Sentences
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The smaller scale of this scene, and the nimbi given to Christ and the Apostles point to its having been the work of a special artist.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
I have printed nimbiferi in preference to nubiferi because Jupiter is linked with nimbi at two other passages.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
There are various Bernini saints and seraphs in stucco-sculpture, astride of the tablets and door- tops, backing against their rusty machinery of coppery nimbi and egg-shaped cloudlets.
From Italian Hours by James, Henry
There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas
Device, the Virgin and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her right hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross.
From Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
