aureole

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See also: auréole, auréolé, and Aureole

English

Etymology

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) ("golden (crown)").

Pronunciation

Noun

aureole (plural aureoles)

  1. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
    • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1915, W Somerset Maugham, “chapter 122”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H Doran Company, →OCLC:
      They sat quietly, side by side, without speaking. Philip enjoyed having her near him. He was warmed by her radiant health. A glow of life seemed like an aureole to shine about her.
    • 1916, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “The Voice of Age”, in The Man Against the Sky:
      She feels, with all our furniture,
      Room yet for something more secure
      Than our self-kindled aureoles
      To guide our poor forgotten souls […]
    • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 4, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 69:
      Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.
  2. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, Part One, Chapter 1:
      It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]
    • 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 6, in The Farthest Shore, Atheneum Books:
      The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […]
  3. (astronomy) A corona.
  4. (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
    • 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions":
      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.
  5. (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

aureole (third-person singular simple present aureoles, present participle aureoling, simple past and past participle aureoled)

  1. (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.

References

Italian

Noun

aureole f

  1. plural of aureola

Latin

Adjective

aureole

  1. vocative masculine singular of aureolus

Portuguese

Verb

aureole

  1. inflection of aureolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

aureole

  1. inflection of aureolar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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