aureole
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To Ebbers' head, he added a hallucinogenic explosion of eyes and dots. Around the pair's hands, he placed an aureole — the abstracted, golden flames that are used in the depiction of holy figures in Catholic iconography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
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
Cressida is a boyish creature, “narrow-hipped, flat-chested” and with “frizzled hair like a dark aureole about her head.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2014
Sinking slowly to the bottom, she filled, the heavy oil from her motors finding its way to the surface in an aureole of iridescent colours to mark her last resting-place.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
A sudden burst of candles, weird With aureoles, like lamps of death!
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
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