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From Brueghel +‎ -ian.

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Brueghelian (comparative more Brueghelian, superlative most Brueghelian)

  1. Of or pertaining to any of the Dutch/Flemish painters of the Brueghel line (also spelled Bruegel or Breughel).
    • 1977, David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 130:
      The Brueghelian world of the peasantry was attacked for its promotion of licentiousness, drunkenness, laziness, and ungodliness.
    • 2017 October 29, Guy Lodge, “DVD reviews: It Comes at Night, My Cousin Rachel, The Villainess and more”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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