gloriole

The figure is standing on a lotus, with a baresman in hand and with a gloriole around his head.

In the words of Friedrich Engels, "the Church blessed the feudal order with the gloriole of divine blessings.

In the vicinity of Nazca, on the rock faces, are drawings of men with rays shooting out of their heads, rather like the gloriole in paintings of Christ.

The correct interpretation of these two words is that Moses was enlightened, that "the skin of his face shone" (as with a gloriole), as the KJV has it.

If they darkened the sun in heaven, they clothed it with the strong colours of sunrise in garment or gloriole; if they had given men stones for bread, the stones were carved with kindly faces and fascinating tales.