Definition of "brumal" [bru•mal]

• Of, relating to, or occurring in winter. (adjective)

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• "Snow Blind flailed and loomed with a kind of brumal intensity, this soothes and has more of an air of passivity."
• "Not suddenly doth the sweet warmth of universal life, from brumal caves advancing, interfuse the vast abysmal air, or penetrate the deep heart of the frost-entranced Earth."
• "Her brother wintered at Welland; but whether because his experience of tropic climes had unfitted him for the brumal rigours of Britain, or for some other reason, he seldom showed himself out of doors, and Swithin caught but passing glimpses of him."