Moreau

[maw-roh, maw-roh, mawr-oh]

noun

1. Gustave 1826–98, French painter.

2. Jeanne 1928–2017, French film actress.

3. Jean Victor 1763–1813, French general.

4. a river in northwest South Dakota, flowing east to the Missouri River. 290 miles (470 km) long.

Moreau

/ mɔro /

noun

1. Gustave (ɡystav) 1826–98, French symbolist painter

2. Jean Victor (ʒɑ̃ viktɔr). 1763–1813, French general in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

3. Jeanne (ʒan). born 1928, French stage and film actress. Her films include Jules et Jim (1961), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and The Proprietor (1996)

Example Sentences

They’re being raised and studied on Neverland Research Island, a name that doesn’t give off creepy Dr. Moreau vibes at all.

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The production of 1996’s “The Island of Doctor Moreau” was famously tortured, producing the type of unmitigated chaos that feels almost mythic today.

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In an Entertainment Weekly cover story — one year before the magazine’s “Moreau” chronicle — Kilmer said, “I’ve done an absurdly commercial cartoon, and now I’m more likely to get a job I couldn’t get before.”

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The Island Of Dr Moreau, released in 1996, was a critical and comercial flop.

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John Frankenheimer, who directed Kilmer in The Island of Dr Moreau, was even blunter.

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