»brume

A word meaning "mist" or "fog", brume comes to English from Fr., whence Old Fr., perhaps from Provençal; ultimately from Latin brūma, winter; I wonder why I have never seen it before, as it is so pretty and expressive. I read it in a New York Times article on the Morgan.

salim filed this under lingo at 11h27 Tuesday, 05 February 2008 (link) (Yr two bits?)