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aureole
A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
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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, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.
The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light, and his long shadow hopped fantastically along the trunks and aisles of the orchards by the road.
(astronomy) A corona.
(geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.