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Boschian
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Definition:relating to the Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch [1450 - 1516]. He is most famous for his painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" which shows nighmarish depictions of hell.
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She moved like a fair angel among three horrible Boschian cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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The heavily forested park known as the Bois de Boulogne was called many things, but the Parisian cognoscenti knew it as "the Garden of Earthly Delights." The epithet, despite sounding flattering, was quite to the contrary. Anyone who had seen the lurid Bosch painting of the same name understood the jab;
Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code, p157 (2007)
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