(4 syl.). Pictures of grotesque scenes in low life, such as
country wakes, penny weddings, and so on. They are so called from the
Italian word bamboccio (a cripple), a nickname given to Pieter
van Laer, the first Dutch painter of such scenes, distinguished in
Rome.
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