Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a nimbus; surrounded (especially, having the head surrounded) by a nimbus.
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- adjective Having a
nimb orhalo .
Etymologies
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From nimb.
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Examples
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A conventional tree springs from the central loaf, and on each side is a nimbed figure.
Vanishing England 1892
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In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.
Within the Tides Joseph Conrad 1890
yarb commented on the word nimbed
In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.
- Conrad, The Planter of Malata
March 5, 2009
seanahan commented on the word nimbed
Nimbed means having nimb or halo. Similar to nimbus.
March 6, 2009