/bɹuːm/, /bɹɪu̯m/
OriginBorrowed 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”).
- countable, literary, uncountableMist, fog, vapour.
“For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.”
“All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon.”
Formsbrumes(plural)