bruit
verb
[ bruːt ]
• spread (a report or rumour) widely.
• "I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office"
bruit
noun
• a report or rumour.
• "the wildest bruits were greedily credited"
• a sound, especially an abnormal one, heard through a stethoscope; a murmur.
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French bruit ‘noise’, from bruire ‘to roar’.
