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Beme vs Breme - What's the difference?

beme | breme |

As nouns the difference between beme and breme

is that beme is (obsolete) trumpet while breme is common bream.

As a verb beme

is (obsolete) to sound a trumpet.

beme

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) beme, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Trumpet.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bemen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (bem)
  • (obsolete) To sound a trumpet.
    • Derived terms
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    breme

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

  • (obsolete) Stormy, tempestuous, fierce.
  • * late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale :
    • He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fou?ten breme as it were bores two.
  • * 1579 , Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender :
    • Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
  • * 1748 , James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence :
    • The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme .
    Mallory, "Le Morte d'Arthur":
    "So upon the morn there came Sir Gawaine as brim (breme) as any boar, with a great spear in his hand."
  • * (rfdate), Drayton;
    • From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.
  • (obsolete) Famous; renowned; well-known.
    • (Wright)

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