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gloriole

NOUN
  1. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

How To Use gloriole In A Sentence

  • The hand of history that occasionally grips the Prime Minister's shoulder disturbs a countenance effusive with passion, belief and vision, and knocks askance a golden gloriole of goodness.
  • Shoppers, like me, flocked to the stall, charmed by the man in the garlic gloriole, whose sunny disposition seemed fueled by the alliaceous aura above. French Word-A-Day:
  • In June 1963 he hit twenty at the top of his gloriole, and with a river of money billowing in, allowing him to buy a spread outside Paris.
  • I was aglow with its gloriole, but still time flowed strongly around me. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • He is, as he so loves to be, correct - but not in any sense which would make his golden gloriole radiate with greater magnificence.
  • In fact, isn't the irony of this that the cult of life is elevating its gloriole in a society whose cultural output makes a fetish of death?
  • Halos: Also known as a nimbus, icebow or Gloriole, a halo is an optical phenomenon that appears near or around the Sun or Moon, and sometimes near other strong light sources such as street lights. Celestial Phenomena
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