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Brumal

Brumal \Bru"mal\, a. [L. brumalis, fr. bruma winter: cf. F. brumal.] Of or pertaining to winter. ``The brumal solstice.''
--Sir T. Browne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brumal

"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 Fabre d'Eglantine from French brume "fog" (see brume).

Wiktionary
brumal

a. 1 Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry. 2 Occurring in winter.

WordNet
brumal

adj. characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep" [syn: hibernal, hiemal]

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.