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A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
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(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
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A corona.
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A ring around an igneous intrusion.
Examples of aureole in a Sentence
Siberia. Aureole, Citrina, Baroni, and Sovereign are modern hybrid sorts of much value.
The company was founded in 1909 with one product, a hair color called aureole, which it sold via hair dressers and salons.
The Persian belief that the legitimate sovereign reigned by the grace of Ormazd, whose favour was made manifest by the sending of the Hvareno, a kind of celestial aureole of fire, resulted in the doctrine that the sun was the giver of the Hvareno.
When it is merely a luminous disk round the head, it is called specifically a nimbus, while the combination of nimbus and aureole is called a glory.
The strict distinction between nimbus and aureole is not commonly maintained, and the latter term is most frequently used to denote the radiance round the heads of saints, angels or persons of the Godhead.
This figure, also known as the vesica piscis, is common in ecclesiastical seals and as a glory or aureole in paintings of sculpture, surrounding figures of the Trinity, saints, &c. The figure is, however, sometimes referred to the almond, as typifying virginity; the French name for the symbol is Amande mystique.
Although Becket was a man of narrow sympathies and by no means of liberal views, he had died for the liberties of his caste, and the aureole that surrounded him enhanced the prestige and ascendancy of the papacy.
The eloquence of the Italian humanist has bestowed a not entirely merited aureole on the memory of Jerome of Prague.
The conspiracy was a failure, and Louis Philippe, fearing lest he might make the pretender popular either by the glory of an acquittal or the aureole of martyrdom, had him taken to Lorient and put on board a ship bound for America, while his accomplices were brought before the court of assizes and acquitted (February 1837).
Three rings surround the central aureole of this lunar corona imaged by Lauri Kangas (site) on 31st January 2004.
Coronae have an intensely bright central aureole which is almost white and fringed with yellows and reds.
The area around the nipple (the aureole) will increase in size.