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Nimbus   /nˈɪmbəs/   Listen
Nimbus

noun
(pl. L. nimbi, E. nimbuses)
1.
A dark grey cloud bearing rain.  Synonyms: nimbus cloud, rain cloud.
2.
An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.  Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, halo.



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"Nimbus" Quotes from Famous Books



... silhouette of her, her long lashes, her dented lip, her adorable chin. In the dim moonlight, as she sat with her head bent a little over Jims, the lamplight glinting on her pearls until they glistened like a slender nimbus, he thought she looked exactly like the Madonna that hung over his mother's desk at home. He carried that picture of her in his heart to the horror of the battlefields of France. He had had a strong fancy for ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... pride quite a plume, of complex rays more or less beautifully coloured. A worm which occasionally swims like a water snake, and again reposes inertly on the sand, as does the beche-de-mer, sets off its brown naked body with a red nimbus—a ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... to a baffling level, in a blue serge costume of severe cut; a plain white linen coat-collar and a small hat, which covered, but did not hide, a mass of hair which, against the slanting sunlight at her back, lent the illusion of a golden nimbus about her head. ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... on my bed with my face in the pillow. I wasn't crying—I couldn't cry. There was just a dreadful dull ache in everything. Sara sat down on the rocker in front of the window and the sunset light came in behind her and made a sort of nimbus round her head, like a motherly ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... the overcast days in the pack. It was bitterly cold in the crow's-nest however much one put on then, and water skies often turned out to be nimbus clouds after we had laboured and cannoned towards them. The light, too, tired and strained one's eyes far more ...
— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans


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