aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
She floated into the sunny breakfast-room in an aureola of white lace, with Janet beside her, and followed by Inness and Baker.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
From her crown of beryl, from her heart of ruby, the rays shot forth, shone out her fear-inspiring aureola and streamed over the town and in the air, eclipsing the sun, which turned pale.
From Psyche by Louis Couperus
Airy showed that refraction in a Mercurian atmosphere could not possibly originate the noted aureola, which must accordingly be set down as "strictly an ocular nervous phenomenon."
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
As on the previous day, the sinking rays of the sun cast the gleam of their ruddy aureola upon the folds of Joan Darc's standard, planted by herself upon the battlements of the fortress.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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