Breughel

or Breu·gel, Brue·ghel, Brue·gel

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

/ ˈbrɔɪ gəl, ˈbru-; Flemish ˈbrœ gəl /

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noun

Pie·ter the Elder

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

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.
Adventures and Enthusiasms|E. V. Lucas
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.
The Art Of The Moving Picture|Vachel Lindsay

British Dictionary definitions for Breughel

Breughel

/ (ˈbrɔɪɡəl) /

noun

a variant spelling of Brueghel

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