EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR AURORA
On the 16th of April the 'Aurora' dropped anchor in the harbour of Zanzibar.
Then Aurora saw that Tithonus was growing into a little old man.
The aurora, like a hundred searchlights, was whipping across the sky.
The gang-plank was hauled in, and the Aurora swung out from the bank.
Already has not its aurora brightened the tops of my snow-covered mountains?
The former looked as if she were about to, but Mrs. Aurora Chase came forward.
Elizabeth asked why Aurora should hold his opinions lightly.
Aurora and I wouldn't interrupt a business talk for the world.
He came out of the bushes, so Elvira and Aurora say, and spoke to them.
We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars.
WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., from Latin Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn, from PIE *ausus- "dawn," also the name of the Indo-European goddess of the dawn, from root *aus- "to shine," especially of the dawn (cf. Greek eos "dawn," auein "to dry, kindle;" Sanskrit usah, Lithuanian ausra "dawn;" Latin auster "south wind," usum "to burn;" Old English east "east").