aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
She carried with her a sort of pyrotechnic aureola, suspended below her car by a wire, which she was to set off in the air.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules
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 Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
A new painting had just been hung in the church,—the Holy Child, called by the people “Little Jesus,” with an aureola about his head.
From Fairy Book by May, Sophie
The balloon threw large shadows on this heap of clouds, and was surrounded as by an aureola.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules
