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aureole
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synonyms: nimbus ???
tags: [art]
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Definition:a halo; the circle of light over the heads or surrounding saints and other deities in artworks.
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He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotions. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard—a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable,
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Her hair was floating above her head because of the fan beside them—in an aureole.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.152 (2002)
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A half minute later four puffs of smoke dotted the ridge, and a flight of hoarse humming shrieks tore the air. A little aureole cracked and splintered over the First, followed by loud cries of anguish and a brief, slight confusion.
John William De Forest. The Brigade Commander
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the drops of dew hanging from her hair formed, as it were, a topaz aureole around her face.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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