brume

brume

noun \ˈbrüm\

Definition of BRUME

: mist, fog

— bru·mous \ˈbrü-məs\ adjective

Examples of BRUME

1. <cloaked in the early-morning brume, the village did indeed look like some long-lost Brigadoon>

Origin of BRUME

French, mist, winter, from Old Occitan bruma, from Latin, winter solstice, winter; akin to Latin brevis short — more at brief

First Known Use: 1808

Related to BRUME

Synonyms: haze, fog, gauze, mist, murk, reek, smog, soup

Related Words: bank, cloud, fume, miasma, smoke, smother, steam

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Rhymes with BRUME

bloom, boom, broom, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, glume, groom, khoum, loom, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, toom, vroom, whom, womb, zoom