bruit

American  

[broot] / brut /

verb (used with object)

1. to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed byabout ).

   The report was bruited through the village.

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noun

1. Medicine/Medical. any generally abnormal sound or murmur heard on auscultation.

2. Archaic. rumor; report.

3. Archaic. noise; din; clamor.

bruit British  

/ bruːt /

verb

1. to report; rumour

   it was bruited about that the king was dead

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noun

1. med an abnormal sound heard within the body during auscultation, esp a heart murmur

2. archaic

   1. a rumour

   2. a loud outcry; clamour

Other Word Forms

• bruiter
  noun

Etymology

Origin of bruit

1400–50; late Middle English (noun) < Anglo-French, Old French, noun use of past participle of bruire to roar < Vulgar Latin *brūgere, a conflation of Latin rūgīre to bellow and Vulgar Latin *bragere; see bray ¹

Example Sentences

Among the more maverick works is a piece by Duchamp - A Bruit Secret - in which he placed a ball of string between two brass plates, with an unknown object hidden in the middle.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2016

Bruit, brōōt, n. noise: something noised abroad: a rumour or report.—v.t. to noise abroad: to report: to celebrate.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Louise Puget wrote romances and chansons that were remarkably pretty and popular, if not very ambitious, and produced the operettas, "Le Mauvais Oeil" and "La Veilleuse," besides the opera, "Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien."

From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur

Coles’s Art of Simpling is the only herbal which devotes a chapter to herbs useful for animals—“Plants as have operation upon the bodies of Bruit Beasts.”

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

And he assures, that he hath seen men eat, and hath often made Bruit Animals swallow all that is esteem'd most poysonous in a Viper, yet without the least mischief to them.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry