goya

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828)

Borrowed from Okinawan ごーやー (gooyaa).

He went back to his Goya. — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy
It was one of those spectres, half light, half shadow, such as one beholds in dreams and in the extraordinary work of Goya, pale, motionless, sinister, crouching over a tomb, or leaning against the grating of a prison cell. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
Beneath that foggy sky, in that dirty street, under the shadow of the tall black houses, those hideous masses of people reminded one of the wildest fancies of Callot and of Goya: children in rags, drunken women, grim and blighted figures of men, rushed against each other, pushed, fought, struggled, to follow with howls and hisses an almost inanimate victim--the victim of a deplorable mistake. — The Wandering Jew — Complete, Eugène Sue

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Goya, Francisco de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

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