aureola

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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

His face wore a look of triumph, and was surrounded by an aureola which dazzled Rosanette.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave

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 Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

The sun flares up; its rays seem to envelop the sacrificial altar with a dazzling aureola; above, the birds are singing their morning symphony.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne

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 Verne, Jules