Molière

[mohl-yair, maw-lyer]

noun

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

Molière

/ 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)

Molière

1. 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.

Example Sentences

It begins by reminding readers of the incompetent doctors in the plays of French playwright Moliere, men who endangered their patients’ lives.

From Los Angeles Times

The second reaction reminds me of Moliere who described a sudden retreat into home life, to plant our gardens, as it were.

From Salon

Upon directing South Coast Repertory’s first show — Moliere’s “Tartuffe,” staged at the Newport Beach Ebell Club — Benson went on to helm a total of 119 SCR productions over the next six decades.

From Los Angeles Times

It opened at the Duchess Theatre in September 2014 where it has been performed more than 3,500 times with 106 actors and won 11 awards including an Olivier, a Tony and a Moliére.

From BBC

Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga’s beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

From Los Angeles Times