aureole

• A shadowy bull's-eye -- breast, aureole, nipple drawn on the silken cloth. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
• Her hair was a golden aureole, a mass of metallic-look:ng filaments that hung below her shoulders. —  A Demon In My View
• The altar picture shone; around the brow of the saint gleamed an aureole, while the form of the seductive woman grew black. —  Pater Peter. English.
• The criticism of religion therefore contains potentially the criticism of the Vale of Tears whose aureole is religion Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers which adorned the chain, not that man should wear his fetters denuded of fanciful embellishment, but that he should throw off the chain, and break the living flower The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he thinks, acts, shapes his reality like the disillusioned man come to his senses, so that he revolves around himself, and thus around his real sun. —  Selected Essays
• The beautiful painted ceiling of the Tower was designed, and all its essential parts executed, with a rare union of artistic skill and archćological knowledge, by H.S. le Strange, Esq., of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, at the expense of H.R. Evans, Esq., then Registrar to the Dean and Chapter; the centre contains a figure of the Saviour in an aureole: He is represented as holding a globe in His left hand, and is surrounded by the sun, moon, and stars; on either side are Cherubim and Seraphim bearing scrolls containing the words "Holy! —  Ely Cathedral

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