rumour

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Noun

rumour (countable and uncountable; plural rumours)

1. Alternative spelling of rumor.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16

     Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[1]:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.