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

And don’t forget nimbus the rain cloud, I add, that’s something.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Device, the Virgin and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her right hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross.

From Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

There are various Bernini saints and seraphs in stucco-sculpture, astride of the tablets and door- tops, backing against their rusty machinery of coppery nimbi and egg-shaped cloudlets.

From Italian Hours by Henry James

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 Mark Bear Akrigg

Between this and Cyrillus stand three considerable craters with nimbi.

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

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 Edward Conybeare

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

Flashing around me, and from Lakla and O'Keefe, were nimbuses of flickering scarlet flames.

From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt

Their brandished spears made nimbuses over their heads; and this time their response was like the baying of hounds.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman