Meaning & use
brumous
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Full of fog or mist; wintry and gloomy.
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A brumous haze hung over the valley all morning.
The novel opens on a brumous December evening in London.
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"Brumous" derives from the Latin "bruma," meaning winter, the shortest day of the year.
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