Breme vs Brume - What's the difference?
breme | brume |
(obsolete) Stormy, tempestuous, fierce.
* late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale :
* 1579 , Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender :
* 1748 , James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence :
* (rfdate), Drayton;
(obsolete) Famous; renowned; well-known.
(literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
* 1972', All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the '''brume of the dragon. — John Gardner, ''Grendel (André Deutsch 1972, p. 77)
As a noun breme
is common bream.As a verb brume is
.breme
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
- He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fou?ten breme as it were bores two.
- Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
- 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."
- From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.
- (Wright)