aureole

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It gave to her a kind of aureole, as if her beauty shed a lustre round her.

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  1. noun A circle of light or radiance surrounding the head or body of a representation of a deity or holy person; a halo.
  2. noun Astronomy See corona.

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  • Browning and his wife were ardently liberal in their political feeling; but there were differences in the colours of their respective creeds and sentiments; Mrs Browning gave away her imagination to popular movements; she was also naturally a hero-worshipper; she hoped more enthusiastically than he was wont to do; she was more readily depressed; the word “liberty” for her had an aureole or a nimbus which glorified all its humbler and more prosaic meanings. —  Robert Browning
  • It was probably thick with fingerprints, but he wasn't in the least concerned about that now. —  Knocked for a Loop
  • It gave to her a kind of aureole, as if her beauty shed a lustre round her. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
  • Outside the aureole are the symbols of the four Evangelists: the Angel of St. Matthew and the Eagle of St. John one on each side above the Winged Lion of St. Mark and the Ox of St. Luke similarly placed below. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
  • The aureole was falling from the Communists. —  My Disillusionment in Russia
 

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin (corōna) aureola, golden (crown), feminine of Latin aureolus, golden, from aureus, from aurum, gold.

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  1. from Middle English aureole (cf. French auréole), from Latin aureola: see aureola. Cf. oriole.
  2. from aureole, n.
 

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