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aureoled en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Surrounded by a corona or halo.
   • 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:
   • The lover's passion was yet upon them; each to the other was plainly aureoled. 1996, Mary Johnston, Cease Firing, page 134:
   • 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:

aureoled en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of aureole
   form of aureole