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aureola
noun as in halo
Example Sentences
Spring foliage appears acid-yellow on the cultivar ‘All Gold’, while ‘Aureola’ presents with fresh strappy leaves striped with bright green and gold.
Named Aureola, it has mounding blades that are a bright yellow with a stripe of green running through it.
He awakened the sympathy and interest of everyone by his winning ways, frankness and honesty; but above all, by that mysterious radiance emanating from Predestinated Beings; which the old masters interpreted by a golden aureola, called magnetism by the scientists of the present day, because they lack the power of explaining its nature.
The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence. µ Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola.
Sketches were structureless, as any aureola formed by stray sunlight grazing the moon might naturally be.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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