aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Louis Couperus
“I will remember,” he said, looking up to meet the pleading eyes of the Child: but, lo! the whole face had melted into the aureola; nothing was left but light.
From Fairy Book by Sophie May
The rays quivered everywhere in the air, and the aureola filled the world.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
They are generally surrounded by an aureola known as the penumbra, and sensibly less luminous than the other portions of the orb.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 by Robert Chambers
