puhekieltä What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
1667, (w), (w), Book 1, ll. 651-4:
There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour ….
2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, page 23:
If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.