Definitions
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French brume, from Latin brūma ("winter"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, perhaps from Provençal, from Latin brūma, winter; see brumal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In studying a 13th-century scroll where nine scaly dragons writhe through a sepia mist, Mr. Li focused on a spot near the center where the brume twists into a spiral.”
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“Wih laik teh Baff alawt – itza gud plais tu getz obur teh jettlagz frum haveng tu crost teh Pond wiffowt haveng tu goe strait intu teh hubbub uv Lundun awl tyrd and grumpee frum teh lawng flite sitteng awn an brume foar awl tohse owers goeng akros teh Pond kan getz tyreng inz a hurree.”
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“Ai will bring teh sweepy brume fur cleenin up after awl the breakabloling ov teh dishus n playtes”
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“Muss be awful skinnee if can hidez unner de cowch. maibe b hined? oar ina brume closit?”
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“Heremon, nolens volens, brood our pansies, brune in brume.”
“The air thickened around him, a metallic brume that watered his eyes.”
“‘Have you noticed how the thousands of dry twigs between the trunks make a brown mist, a brume?’”
“Ahead, the mountains loomed huge and craggy against the skyline, a massing of jagged peaks and rugged cliffs piled one on top of the other until they faded away into the brume-shrouded distance.”
“The creepers that appeared out of its brume had the look of shades, and even the equipment seemed to shift and turn in the mix of light and shadow.”
“In the valley's pale brume, the ruins of Castledown hunkered down in glistening, sharp-edged relief, dark metallic surfaces streaked bright green by rain-dampened lichen and moss.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brume’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 175 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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words i must use at some point in my ...
apricity, splanchnic, anosmic, quincunx, cynosure, lacuna, senescence, crepuscule, ataraxia, dehiscence, quixotic, halitosis and 2 more...
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Made of Awesome
The rare, the obsolete, the freakin' awesome.
petrichor, acrasia, agowilt, alexiteric, antapology, aspectabund, autophoby, bangstry, bever, blesiloquent, blive, bloncket and 55 more...
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There's a word for that? The Mother N...
glin, virga, freshet, petrichor, psithurism, apricity, plenilunary, parhelion, ombrophobous, nemophily, lychnidiate, mizzle and 31 more...
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weathering heights
weather words
ground clouds, haze, mizzle, murk, brume, film, gloom, sunshine, frosty, storm, cirrostratus, cumulonimbus and 57 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is befogged and looking for a new brume! Jan 9, 2010
drumma n a thick, heavy atmospheric condition offering reduced visibility because of the presence of suspended particles Nov 14, 2008