bruit

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Among the more maverick works is a piece by Duchamp - A Bruit Secret - in which he placed a ball of string between two brass plates, with an unknown object hidden in the middle.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2016

Louise Puget wrote romances and chansons that were remarkably pretty and popular, if not very ambitious, and produced the operettas, "Le Mauvais Oeil" and "La Veilleuse," besides the opera, "Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien."

From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur

Much Ado About Nothing one "spots" at once under the title Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien, or B�atrice et B�n�dict; but why Hero or Ero?

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

And he assures, that he hath seen men eat, and hath often made Bruit Animals swallow all that is esteem'd most poysonous in a Viper, yet without the least mischief to them.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Bruit, brōōt, n. noise: something noised abroad: a rumour or report.—v.t. to noise abroad: to report: to celebrate.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various