aureole
Example Sentences
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The heart of “Aeronauts,” not surprisingly, is what happens as the balloon goes higher and higher, as salutations like “clouds ahoy” are exchanged and wonders like an aureole or circular rainbow are observed.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019
This childishly wily Mary is a very damp match for Catherine McCormack’s pitiless Elizabeth and her aureole of fabulous, if anachronistic, hair.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018
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
It surrounded the most beautiful with an aureole of admiring reverence.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
