aureole
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To Ebbers' head, he added a hallucinogenic explosion of eyes and dots. Around the pair's hands, he placed an aureole — the abstracted, golden flames that are used in the depiction of holy figures in Catholic iconography.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015
That will allow the heat to extend farther into the country rock, creating a larger aureole.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
“I love you, Papa,” she said, her smile an aureole of smeared toothpaste and happiness.
From Nature • Mar. 12, 2014
Cressida is a boyish creature, “narrow-hipped, flat-chested” and with “frizzled hair like a dark aureole about her head.”
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014
The mark on the temple indicates the union of the two; an aureole is seen around the head, as in modern pictures of saints.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
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