![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordbrume (BROOM) - n., mist, fog, vapor.
Not a common synonym, but a pleasing one. Adopted around 1808 from French, from Old French, from bruma either directly from Latin or via Old Provençal, winter, originally specifically meaning the winter solstice, a contraction of either brevima diēs or brevissima diēs, shortest day. So better applied to cold-weather mist.
---L.
Not a common synonym, but a pleasing one. Adopted around 1808 from French, from Old French, from bruma either directly from Latin or via Old Provençal, winter, originally specifically meaning the winter solstice, a contraction of either brevima diēs or brevissima diēs, shortest day. So better applied to cold-weather mist.
---L.
