brume

Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter”).

• IPA^(key): /bɹuːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

brume (countable and uncountable, plural brumes)

1. (literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
   • 1972, All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon. — John Gardner, Grendel (André Deutsch 1972, p. 77)

• brumous
• brumal

• umber, umbre

From Old French brume, borrowed from Latin brūma (“winter”), possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan bruma.

• IPA^(key): /bʁym/

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brume f (plural brumes)

1. mist, haze, fog

• Brumaire

• → English: brume

• “brume” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

brume f

1. plural of bruma

• rumbe, umbre