Capulet

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague. figuratively

    "It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of capellet. alt-of, alternative

Example

More examples

"Romeo is a Montague and Juliet, a Capulet."

Etymology

Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.

Related phrases

romeo and juliet couple

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