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noun

Halo n. (pl. halos)

A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

verb

Halo v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. haloed; pres. part. haloing) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo. "The fire That haloed round his saintly brow."

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Etymology of 'Halo'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Halo" Quotes from Famous Books

... school-house often and often; she knew exactly how it looked in the moonlight, or on a winter's day when the snow lay on the ground, and the ruddy light of a December sunset tinged the windows and threw a halo over the old buildings. But she liked to see it best in the dim starlight, when all sorts of shadows seemed to lurk between the arches, and a strange, solemn light invested it with ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... represented story, the mind cannot retain that repose and self-possession which are necessary for the reception of pure tragical impressions. The heroic fables, on the other hand, came to view at a certain remoteness; and surrounded with a certain halo of the marvellous. The marvellous possesses the advantage that it can, in some measure, be at once believed and disbelieved: believed in so far as it is supported by its connexion with other opinions; disbelieved while we never take such ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... girl?—white and red? Miss Blunt is not a pretty girl, she is a handsome woman. She leaves an impression of black and red; that is, she is a florid brunette. She has a great deal of wavy black hair, which encircles her head like a dusky glory, a smoky halo. Her eyebrows, too, are black, but her eyes themselves are of a rich blue gray, the color of those slate-cliffs which I saw yesterday, weltering under the tide. Her mouth, however, is her strong point. It ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

... accompanied by Counts Bertrand and Drouot, he set sail from Frejus. It was less than fifteen years since he had landed there crowned with the halo ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... the campaigns of 1912 and 1913, King Constantine had more than effaced the memory of his defeat in 1897. His victories ministered to the national lust for power and formed an earnest of the glory that was yet to come to Greece. Henceforth a halo of military romance—a thing especially dear to the hearts of men—shone about the head of Constantine; and his grateful country bestowed upon him the title of {2} Stratelates. In town mansions and village huts men's mouths were ...

— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

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