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stone breaker

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Noun1.stone breaker - someone who breaks up stone
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
breaker, ledgeman - a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone


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In the geometric faceting of Seurat's small drawings in graphite from 1880-81, one could recognize a certain kind of Cubism (say, that of Jacques Villon); and even Picasso's Houses on the Hill (the 1909 Horta masterpiece ludicrously deaccessioned by MOMA) was summoned by Seurat's large Stone Breaker, Le Raincy, 1879-81, one of the first drawings in which he used his beloved Conte crayon (albeit still mixed with graphite).
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