aureola

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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Sketches were structureless, as any aureola formed by stray sunlight grazing the moon might naturally be.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

The royal castle shone with a strange lustre; a sun seemed to send forth a halo; an ominous aureola appeared in the distance.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis

The arch encloses a medallion bust, the head of which is defaced, but which represented the Saviour, as is proved by the indication of a cross on the aureola.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander