Molière

[ mohl-yair; French maw-lyer ]

noun
  1. Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–73, French actor and playwright.

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How to use Molière in a sentence

  • Molière, the great French dramatist, presents a study which should fill more than one meeting.

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  • With us Parisians this returning of keepsakes has been out of fashion since the days of Molière and Le dépit amoureux.

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British Dictionary definitions for Molière

Molière

/ (French mɔljɛr) /


noun
  1. real name Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. 1622–73, French dramatist, regarded as the greatest French writer of comedy. His works include Tartuffe (1664), Le Misanthrope (1666), L'Avare (1668), Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), and Le Malade imaginaire (1673)

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Cultural definitions for Molière

Molière

[ (mol-yair) ]


Nom de plume of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a seventeenth-century French playwright. He is best known for his comedies of satire, such as The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

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