brume

[broom]

noun

1. mist; fog.

brume

/ bruːm /

noun

1. poetic,  heavy mist or fog

Other Word Forms

• brumous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of brume¹

1800–10; < French: fog < Provençal bruma < Latin brūma winter, originally winter solstice, contraction of *brevima ( diēs ) shortest (day); breve

Word History and Origins

Origin of brume¹

C19: from French: mist, winter, from Latin brūma , contracted from brevissima diēs the shortest day

Example Sentences

By 10 a.m., an early morning brume had burned off.

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The sublime glassy Radnor Lake pulls in photographers from around mid-Tennessee who often arrive early enough to shoot the morning brume that rises from the lake.

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As the sun brightened the brume, the baits began to defrost.

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Over all hangs the cold brume of char, drifting across the water, lying still upon the decks of ships.

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Then he put down the letter, went over to the dreary window, and began humming a tune called Brume, brume on hil, whose words have been lost to us in the wave of time.

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