- a variation of aureole.
aureola
Example Sentences
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The rays quivered everywhere in the air, and the aureola filled the world.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
Airy showed that refraction in a Mercurian atmosphere could not possibly originate the noted aureola, which must accordingly be set down as "strictly an ocular nervous phenomenon."
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
It is enclosed in a cusped aureola formed of several coloured bands of green, violet, and rose.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
My head swam with a whirl of strange thoughts, and Bethulah, already divine to me, took on a dazzling aureola, sailed away into some strange supernatural ether.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill