What does halo of something mean?
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. Those who had before known her and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
I do not understand the underlined sentence, what does the halo mean here and ,
can you elaborate on "in which she was enveloped" part?
Thanks!
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That is what you call purple prose. I love "perfect elegance on a large scale". Queen Latifa at the coronation?
- That is what you call purple prose.
- I love "perfect elegance on a large scale".
- Queen Latifa at the coronation?
- It is especially bad because this writer is one of those who is so busy imagining she is weaving a spell that she forgets to get the language right.
- The young woman is enveloped in either "a halo" or "misfortune and ignominy".
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That is what you call purple prose. I love "perfect elegance on a large scale". Queen Latifa at the coronation? It is especially bad because this writer is one of those who is so busy imagining she is weaving a spell that she forgets to get the language right. The young woman is enveloped in either "a halo" or "misfortune and ignominy". Take your pick. I think the grammar leans toward the latt
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Those who had before known her and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
Think about a woman walking in a cloud. The cloud covers (envelopes) her and that cloud
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