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Bruegelian

Bruegelian is the alternative spelling of Brueghelian.

Meaning of Brueghelian

Adjective

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).
    • 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

Forms of Bruegelian

comparativemore Bruegelian
superlativemost Bruegelian

Questions about Bruegelian

What is Bruegelian the alternative spelling of?
Bruegelian is the alternative spelling of Brueghelian.

Words near Bruegelian in the dictionary

  1. Brueck
  2. Brueckner
  3. Brueckners
  4. Bruecks
  5. Bruegelesque
  6. Bruegelian
  7. Brueggeman
  8. Brueggemann
  9. Brueggemanns
  10. Brueggemans
  11. Brueghelesque

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