aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
A new painting had just been hung in the church,—the Holy Child, called by the people “Little Jesus,” with an aureola about his head.
From Fairy Book by Sophie May
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 Jules Verne
It was her splendour and her aureola which appeared in the air.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
Lockyer's journey from England to Sicily, and shipwreck in the Psyche, were recompensed with a glimpse of the solar aureola during one second and a half!
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
