Word: clodhopperish
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...swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre...
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