nimbus

Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

Scheib’s staging, just Bayreuth’s 11th “Parsifal” production, paid homage to Wieland Wagner’s breakthrough 1951 minimalist sets with a circle of light that represented both the knights’ round table and a flying nimbus above the wasteland.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

Humanizing Bunny is in keeping with the show's general nimbus of empathy for all of its personalities, even its villains.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2022

This is a kingdom in which the phrase artificial intelligence bathes “everything it was applied to with the nimbus of a bright future.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2020

Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Between this and Cyrillus stand three considerable craters with nimbi.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

I have printed nimbiferi in preference to nubiferi because Jupiter is linked with nimbi at two other passages.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

The smaller scale of this scene, and the nimbi given to Christ and the Apostles point to its having been the work of a special artist.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

We set out at seven a.m. on the next day, when an Azyab or south-easterly wind was promised by the damp air, the slaty sea, and the gloomy nimbi on the hill-tops.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There were saints with glories or nimbi round their heads, Madonnas and kneeling Magi, the manger under a kind of penthouse, and similar subjects—subjects the highest that could be chosen.

From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard

Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018

A mid-17th-century watercolor with gold and ink shows them with flaming nimbuses over their heads, rather than the round halos of Western art, and yet Mary is dressed in Western style.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015

Glories or nimbuses in high relief set thick with gems surround the faces, and sparkle as they reflect the light from the multitude of candles burnt in their honour.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

The village houses receded through shifting distances of pale gloom; one could scarcely distinguish the white slants of their roofs, and the lamp-lights which shone out newly in some of the windows made rosy nimbuses.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins