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Wintry, old style
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brumal
Word definitions for brumal in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry. 2 Occurring in winter.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep" [syn: hibernal , hiemal ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"belonging to winter," 1510s, from Latin brumalis , from bruma "winter" (see brume ). The Latin word also is the ultimate source of Brumaire , second month (Oct. 22-Nov. 20) in calendar of the French Republic, literally "the foggy month," coined 1793 by ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brumal \Bru"mal\, a. [L. brumalis, fr. bruma winter: cf. F. brumal.] Of or pertaining to winter. ``The brumal solstice.'' --Sir T. Browne.
Usage examples of brumal.
But then the plaster softened in the brumal rains and peeled away, exposing the name of the architect.
The epicentre, where the Lady Macbeth had plunged into the drive-fomented particles, was still glowing a nervous blue as brumal waves of static washed through the thinning molecular zephyr of vaporized rock and ice.