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....solves the problem of whether you spell it "wintry" or "wintery" though having now written it, wintery looks wrong...
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wintery looks wrong.
So does wintry. AHD3 accepts wintery as a variant of wintry, so my advice is don't worry. And stay away from brumal if you want to be understood by hoi polloi.
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It occurs to me to wonder how the ancients could have told
which day of the year was the shortest.
My dictionary gives "brume" (rare) fog,mist, vapor
Should be a dandy poetic word. "the fumes and brumes of smoke filled rooms......"
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Oh good now I have a name for the color of my living/room dining room.. i had a custom color blended,from a sample in pantone book- blue vapor is the pantone name but brume grey is better.. it is the color of fog.. and like fog it is fluid-- the color changed depending upon the light, from blue, to grey to even a pale sage green shade..
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sounds like we've made a clean sweep of everything... 
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