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aureole
[ awr-ee-ohl ]
noun
- a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- any encircling ring of light or color; halo.
- Astronomy. corona ( def 3 ).
- Geology. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of aureole1
Example Sentences
Eve’s long, spiraling strands of hair blow out into a radiant aureole behind her shapely body, as if it were a starburst halo framing a divinity.
Using her bare breasts as paintbrushes, Berlin, beginning in the ’70s, made “tit prints,” in which her pigment-laden aureoles produced forms that resemble balloons and angelfish.
Like his crossed legs, Cannon’s head and upper torso are framed in flickering swipes of green, as if this is a depiction of a holy man surrounded by an incandescent aureole.
And everything is framed by an aureole of crisp fern leaves reaching to the canvas’s edges — a many-pointed crown.
They now form a feathered aureole framing the extraordinary figure of a nude black man who sits, tensely perched on a pillow, legs spread wide.
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