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Aureole

//ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

    "The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head."

  2. 2
    an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint wordnet
  3. 3
    Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something. broadly

    "It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]"

  4. 4
    the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse wordnet
  5. 5
    A corona.
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  1. 6
    A ring around an igneous intrusion.

    "Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation."

  2. 7
    Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”). alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To surround with, or as if with, a halo. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.

Etymology 2

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.

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