Brueghelian

English

Alternative forms

• Bruegelian, Breughelian

Etymology

Brueghel +‎ -ian

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).
   • 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.

Anagrams

• Breughelian