brume
noun/bɹuːm/ · /bɹɪu̯m/
Etymology Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
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Literary Mist, fog, vapour.
- For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
- All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon.1972, John Gardner, Grendel, André Deutsch, page 77: