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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bruit /bruːt/

▶verb spread (a report or rumour) widely. ▶noun

1 archaic a report or rumour.

2 Medicine a sound, especially an abnormal one, heard through a stethoscope.

– origin ME (as n.): from OFr. bruit ‘noise’, from bruire ‘to roar’.

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