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variants: or haloes
plural of halo

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1 a special quality or impression associated with something
  • the halo of unimpeachable honesty in which the politician had long basked

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2 an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage
  • a naturalistic depiction of Saint Peter that shows him as a humble fisherman and without the traditional halo

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“Halos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halos. Accessed 18 Aug. 2022.

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