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a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

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Dykstra, in Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas / Nueva escritura de las Americas 16 (2013): 502-3.
Cristo puede aparecer rodeado por una mandorla, presentando habitualmente nimbo.
De tamano imponente, mucho mayor que cuantos le rodean, aparece enmarcado por la mandorla, o almendra mistica, que le encuadra, sobre un fondo azul que representa el cielo.
However, at variance with spontaneous speech where errors involved phonological segments, most reading errors involved only stress assignment (e.g., os'sia [that is] [right arrow] ossia [nonword]; 'mandorla [almond] [right arrow] mandorla [nonword]).
New York, NY, April 23, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Lilly Burgos, Brooklyn artist, also know as Miss Lilly Bee has announced a public viewing of her new body of art work, "Mandorla" at the BWAC Outer Limits Spring Art Show on the Red Hook Pier, at 499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231, from April 26-June 1st.
In thid place was Pistacchio Italiano con croccante di mandorla, made by the gelato artisans Claudio Bearesi & Cesare Cellie of the gelato shop Bacio Gelato from Dubai.
They grasp the edges of the mandorla framing Christ as if presenting him--the focus of the composition, of the gospels they represent, and of believers' lives.
Your eye, on Nothing it stands" --Paul Celan ("Mandorla," from The Noonesrose, trans.
So, the 24-year-old from Eugene started a pop-up business called Mandorla at La Perla Pizzeria to try her hand at selling her pastries twice a month on Sunday mornings, when the Eugene pizzeria is closed.
"Virgilio Pinera: la aureola sobre el Macadam." Mandorla 8 (2005): 124-36.
Christ sits in judgment in the center of a mandorla wearing only a piece of blue cloth.