aureoled
adj1
Surrounded by a corona or halo.
- Laura May and Mrs. McKenna sat on the low window seat, faintly aureoled, their empty cups beside them on the floor.1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “Encounters”, in Sunday Evening, page 176:
- At night they were aureoled by oil lamps and gaslights; during the day they lay in semi-darkness.1977, Richard Sennett, The fall of public man, page 167:
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- The lover's passion was yet upon them; each to the other was plainly aureoled.1996, Mary Johnston, Cease Firing, page 134: