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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