To “bruit (BROOT) about” - from the French for “to roar” - is to repeat or spread a rumor.

Example (as used by Dorothy Belle Pollack in The [Bergen County, N.J.] Record: “It was widely bruited about that in his younger years he was alcoholic.”

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