Breughel

or Breu·gel, Brue·ghel, Brue·gel

[ broi-guh l, broo-; Flemish brœ-guh l ]

/ ˈbrɔɪ gəl, ˈbru-; Flemish ˈbrœ gəl /

noun

Pie·ter the Elder

[pee-ter; Flemish pee-tuh r] /ˈpi tər; Flemish ˈpi tər/, Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.

his sonsJan

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

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Examples from the Web for breughel

He, too, like Breughel, is fond of trussing up a human as if he were a pig and then sticking him with a big knife.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks|James Huneker
To the lover of Flemish paintings Breughel is one of the most characteristic and charming of them all.
The Spell of Flanders|Edward Neville Vose
Another artist in whose works Breughel's inspiration is apparent is Jacob Smits (b. 1856).
Belgium|Emile Cammaerts
Breughel set into motion the mental machinery of the Temptation that never stopped whirring until 1874.
Egoists|James Huneker

No one excelled our English master in this crowding of incident, not even Breughel or Teniers.
Adventures and Enthusiasms|E. V. Lucas

British Dictionary definitions for breughel

Breughel

/ (ˈbrɔɪɡəl) /

noun

a variant spelling of Brueghel

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