What's the difference between tartufe and tartuffe?
Tartufe
Definition:
(n.) A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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Tartuffe
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Tartufe
Example Sentences:
(1) Even the National Theatre , which in its early days was a staunch champion of his work, seems to have lost interest, with just a single production of Molière's work – Tartuffe – in the past 17 years.
(2) She returned to her favourite, rep, at the Almeida, "a funny little scruffy place", when she stood in for an ailing Peggy Mount in a 1976 production of Tartuffe, roaring like the Duchess from Alice in Wonderland, and as the housekeeper in The Doctor's Dilemma (1998), one of a run of good-humoured servants.
(3) The virulence of Molière's attack on religious hypocrisy is so extreme in his play Tartuffe that, at one point, he writes the famous stage direction: "The person talking is a total shit" – just to make it clear to the censor that he, Molière, doesn't agree with an opinion his character expresses.