a. Also 6 brumaill, 6–7 brumall. [ad. L. brūmāl-is belonging to winter, f. brūma contr. of *brevima, shortest (day), winter; cf. F. brumal.] Belonging to winter; winter-like, wintry.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. Prol. 14. Thai schort days that clerkis clepe brumaill.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 129. About the brumall Solstice … the Sea is calme, and the winds do cease.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 374. They walk barefooted, throughout the brumal season.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 32. What cheerfulness there was in brumal verse was that of Horace’s.
