Capulet
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.
Noun
- 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.
- 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. - 1913,...
- Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother,...
- She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague. - 2004, Scott Casper, Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More, page 161:
Origin
Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.