Brueghelian

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1. Of or pertaining to any of the Dutch/Flemish painters of the Brueghel line (also spelled Bruegel or Breughel).

   The Brueghelian world of the peasantry was attacked for its promotion of licentiousness, drunkenness, laziness, and ungodliness.

   1977, David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 130

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   What lies outside may or may not be a zombie dystopia with well-placed hints of Brueghelian hellfire. The home fires, meanwhile, aren’t much more comforting.

   2017 October 29, Guy Lodge, “DVD reviews: It Comes at Night, My Cousin Rachel, The Villainess and more”, in The Guardian, →ISSN