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Mo⋅lière

[mohl-yair; Fr. maw-lyer]
–noun
(Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622–73, French actor and playwright.
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Mo·lière   (mōl-yâr')   
French playwright whose sophisticated comedies include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
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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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