aureole

The heart of “Aeronauts,” not surprisingly, is what happens as the balloon goes higher and higher, as salutations like “clouds ahoy” are exchanged and wonders like an aureole or circular rainbow are observed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

This childishly wily Mary is a very damp match for Catherine McCormack’s pitiless Elizabeth and her aureole of fabulous, if anachronistic, hair.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018

That will allow the heat to extend farther into the country rock, creating a larger aureole.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

“I love you, Papa,” she said, her smile an aureole of smeared toothpaste and happiness.

From Nature ● Mar. 12, 2014

She brought his fine hair into one silken up-springing of ruddy gold like an aureole.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

What remains are assembled pieces of natural wood — here, lengthy shims and wedges — now glued together to form sunbursts and aureoles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2018

David Hertzberg’s “Ellébore” was a pretty little thing about a flower in the snow, with icy piano figures throwing off little cold aureoles of notes from the violins.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2017

When contact metamorphism occurs deeper in the Earth, metamorphism can be seen as rings of facies around the intrusion, resulting in aureoles.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Contact metamorphic aureoles are typically quite small, from just a few centimetres around small dykes and sills, to as much as 100 m around a large stock.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The imagery of the poem is right out of the picture world;   "The clear ranged, unnumbered heads   Bowed with their aureoles."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers