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EL GRECO

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Overview

EL GRECO (noun)
  The noun EL GRECO has 1 sense:

1. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)play

  Familiarity information: EL GRECO used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


EL GRECO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Domenikos Theotocopoulos; El Greco; Greco

Instance hypernyms:

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)


 Context examples 


I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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