Breughel

or Breu·gel, Brue·ghel, Brue·gel

[ broi-guhl, broo-; Flemish brœ-guhl ]

noun
  1. Pie·ter the Elder [pee-ter; Flemish pee-tuhr], /ˈpi tər; Flemish ˈpi tər/, "Peasant Breughel", c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.

  2. his sons, Jan [yahn], /yɑn/, "Velvet Breughel", 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger (“Hell Breughel”), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.

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How to use Breughel in a sentence

  • No one excelled our English master in this crowding of incident, not even Breughel or Teniers.

  • Another artist in whose works Breughel's inspiration is apparent is Jacob Smits (b. 1856).

    Belgium | Emile Cammaerts
  • Like Breughel, he succeeded in bringing the Christian story close to the people's hearts amidst Flemish contemporary surroundings.

    Belgium | Emile Cammaerts
  • One of the great pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder shows a procession of blind men entering a river.

    Nine O'Clock Talks | Frederic B. Kellogg
  • And Eggers insists the whole film is replete with suggestions of the work of Pieter Breughel, the painter.

British Dictionary definitions for Breughel

Breughel

/ (ˈbrɔɪɡəl) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of Brueghel

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