brumously

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From brumous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

brumously (comparative more brumously, superlative most brumously)

  1. In a brumous way or manner.
  2. Murkily, foggily, hazily.
    • 1990, Richard Adams, The Day Gone By, Hutchinson, page 15:
      Half-way down the paddock, on the left, eastern side, stood a big oak tree, and behind this, in season, the full moon would rise, magnified and brumously honey-coloured in the horizon haze, then turning to clear silver as it climbed above the oak.

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