to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about)
1400–50;
late
Middle
English
(noun)
<
Anglo-French,
Old
French,
noun
use
of
past
participle
of
bruire
to
roar
<
Vulgar
Latin
*brūgere,
a
conflation
of
Latin
rūgīre
to
bellow
and
Vulgar
Latin
*bragere;
see
bray1
(https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bruit?s=t)
"At the very least, the stories bruiting 'Oldest Life Form' were missing an essential point presented by Woese and Fox. A headline about 'Weirdest Life Form' might have captured that better."
- David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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