cloaked in the early-morning brume, the village did indeed look like some long-lost Brigadoon
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The sublime glassy Radnor Lake pulls in photographers from around mid-Tennessee who often arrive early enough to shoot the morning brume that rises from the lake.—New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
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French, mist, winter, from Old Occitan bruma, from Latin, winter solstice, winter; akin to Latin brevis short — more at brief
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