brumal

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To help travelers maximize their brumal break periods, Priceline has released a list of places that are likely to prove popular over the coming months based on a number of factors, including their affordability quotient.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023

He shivers in the brumal blast; hungry, he chirps before your door.

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

This singular fact in the history of the animal seems most inexplicable to me, unless she remain concealed in her brumal slumber until after she has been delivered of her cubs.

From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes

"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."

From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack

Odors of laurel, making her faint and pale,     Round her at times exhale, And in the sky as yet no sunny ray,     But brumal vapors gray.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth