Halo
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.
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
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Halo Quotations
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman Melville
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
A ring is a halo on your finger.
Doug Coupland
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton
Halo Translations
halo in Dutch is kring, difussiehalo
halo in French is halo
halo in German is Lichthof, Hof
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