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Delacroix

American  
[duh-la-krwah] / də laˈkrwɑ /

noun

  1. (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène 1798–1863, French painter.


Delacroix British  
/ dəlakrwa /

noun

  1. ( Ferdinand Victor ) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)

"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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The French have given us Delacroix, Debussy, Claire Denis and Simone de Beauvoir, along with some of the goofiest of goofball comedies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Three of the world's top horses – Ombudsman, Delacroix and Calandagan – meet in the Champion Stakes at 16:05 BST.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Associated Press photographer Matias Delacroix contributed to this report.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

Annie Mason, drawn to the island on business, now finds herself under the spell of her neighbor Emmeline Delacroix, but this is a different kind of magic altogether.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

Delacroix “wanted life; life at all costs, life everywhere, in the fields, in the skies, around his figures.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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