aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by Servius to be "the luminous fluid which encircles the heads of the gods."
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
These are the things that bind us to London, and which make the aureola of light that hangs over it at night time seem a crown of glory.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
From her crown of beryl, from her heart of ruby, the rays shot forth, shone out her fear-inspiring aureola and streamed over the town and in the air, eclipsing the sun, which turned pale.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
The rays quivered everywhere in the air, and the aureola filled the world.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
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