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aureola
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An aureola or aureole (diminutive of Latin aurea , "golden") is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. In the earliest periods of Christian art it was confined to the figures of the persons of ...
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n. radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aureola \Au*re"o*la\, Aureole \Au"re*ole\, n. [F. aur['e]ole, fr. L. aureola, (fem adj.) of gold (sc. corona crown), dim. of aureus. See Aureate , Oriole .] (R. C. Theol.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward ...
Usage examples of aureola.
Petrified in art, they accept to the very letter the symbolism of the academical dithyrambic, which places an aureola about the heads of poets, and, persuaded that they are gleaming in their obscurity, wait for others to come and seek them out.
He was like this every time chance brought a woman to his door, and not one had left him without bearing away any aureola about her head and a necklace of tears about her neck.
He saw Mademoiselle Mimi, with two eyes encircled with an aureola of satisfied voluptuousness, leaving the residence in which she had acquired her title of nobility, on the arm of her new lord and master, who, to tell the truth, appeared far less proud of her new conquest than Paris after the rape of Helen.
She threw her head back, letting out small gasps of ecstasy as his tongue danced around her aureola, teasing her to the brink of madness.
Her body was graciously formed, her breasts symmetrical and firm, their aureolas were the colour of ripe mulberries, the nipples upturned and out-thrust.
Arthur seemed unembarrassed at the spill of black centerfolds, their purple-backlit Afros and cocoa aureolae.
Her nipples were plainly outlined, hard and erect, the darkness of the aureolas faintly visible where they pressed against the fabric.
Her emerald-colored dress was cut low, allowing sight of the aureolae as well as the swell of full, ripe breasts the color of new honey.
A barrier of tough, five-foot-high prairie cordgrass was mixed with what might have been goatsbeard and massive clumps of aureola.