Usually means: Almond-shaped halo around religious figures.
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  1. mandorla: Merriam-Webster
  2. Mandorla, mandorla: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mandorla: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mandorla: Wordnik
  5. mandorla: Wiktionary
  6. Mandorla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. mandorla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. mandorla: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. mandorla: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandorla: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. mandorla: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. mandorla: Encyclopedia

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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mandorla)

noun:  A vesica piscis-shaped aureola that surrounds the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, or represents God the Father (who is not traditionally depicted) in traditional Eastern Christian art.

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