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Breughel

American  
[broi-guhl, broo-, brœ-guhl] / ˈbrɔɪ gəl, ˈbru-, ˈbrœ gəl /
Or Breugel,

noun

  1. Pieter the Elder Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.

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


Breughel British  
/ ˈbrɔɪɡəl /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Brueghel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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That’s a crime akin to cutting random holes in a Bosch or Breughel painting; but what’s left is choice.

From Time Dec. 5, 2013

"You're straight out of a Breughel yourself, you know that, don't you," I say to him.

From The Guardian Jan. 5, 2011

The Fight Between Temperance And Liquor, set in the indistinctive architectural centre of Walsall itself, is a satirical knees-up loosely based on Breughel.

From The Guardian May 21, 2010

There he took to painting hyper-detailed landscapes that sometimes leaned toward Caspar David Friedrich, sometimes toward Breughel tinged with some of the weirdness of Max Klinger.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2010

He impolitely spoke of Ary Scheffer and the "apes of sentiment"; while his discussions of Hogarth, Cruikshank, Pinelli and Breughel proclaims his versatility of vision.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

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