aureole

A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.

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.

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.

Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.

It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]

The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […]

A corona.

A ring around an igneous intrusion.

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.

Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”).

To surround with, or as if with, a halo.