aureola

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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vapours were rising from the ravine: the sun shone upon them, throwing a golden aureola about the opposite mountains, and all the wreathing mists that the wind whirled down the valley had elusive, opalescent effects.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

“I will remember,” he said, looking up to meet the pleading eyes of the Child: but, lo! the whole face had melted into the aureola; nothing was left but light.

From Fairy Book by May, Sophie

Dendrœca aureola Closely allied to the wide-ranging     D. �stiva.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Cuvier's work up to this time had appeared to them surrounded with the glory of an aureola at the summit of an incontestable science.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave