What is "bruit"

Usage examples of "bruit".

But for the local aneurysmal thrill at the point of the scar the condition would have been diagnosed as angioma, but as a bruit could be heard over the entire mass it was called an aneurysmal varix, because it was believed there was a connection between a rather large artery and a vein close to the mass.

I have heard bruited by the envious that they were, ah, more intimate than boon companions, I take to be political slander?

Scotland ere the bulk of English arms caught up to them was bruited about, there was a roar of general acclamation for the newmade sovereign.

I and your other friends have bruited it about that your condition has rendered you capricious as is common to gravid women.

Though Angela, of course, made much public show of fealty and devotion to Richard, it was well-known in court circles that she despised him, and several courtiers and foreigners were bruited at one time or another to be her chosen bedmates, most notably Duque Tomaso del Monteleone, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Green Gully, the fame of which was soon to be so widely bruited abroad.

I had refrained from violence, though at desperate cost of self-repression, not wishing to have it bruited abroad that Dolores was the teterrima causa.

And sure enough, they all reported back that it was indeed being bruited about that if Catilina and Lucius Cassius were elected the consuls, they would bring in a general cancellation of debt.

And here she remained for two months, while the scandalous news of her exploit was bruited from Ortelga to Urtah, Dari and all over the empire.

Savine, qui de tres bonne foi croyait etre le seul digne de representer avec eclat son pays a Paris, avait ete exaspere par ce bruit.

Fut-ce ce sentiment de fausse honte, fut-ce la magie, la suggestion de ces bruits?

Quand Belle-Isle est parti, Une nuit, De Prague a petit bruit, Il dit, Voyant la lune: Lumiere de mes jours, Astre de ma fortune, Conduisez-moi toujours.

A ce moment on entendit un bruit de pas lourds, ecrasant le gravier du chemin, et Barnabe parut sur le seuil du hall, tenant a la main un papier bleu.

Et, par les rues desertes de la ville, il descendit vers le Port-Vieux, courant plutot que marchant, le visage fouette par le vent froid qui soufflait du large avec un bruit sinistre que dominait le mugissement rauque de la maree montante deja haute.

Pilotes, et mele au bruit des lames qui brisent des airs de bals de barriere.