Capulet

capulet English Etymology Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the en it Capuleti. Noun en figuratively 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. en 1913 Dirk, a South African Annabella Bruce Marchand 198 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. en 1963 George C. Marshall: Education of a general, 1880-1939 Forrest C. Pogue 8 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, Thomas. en 2004 Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More Scott Casper 161 She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague. en 2020 The Knowledge Machine Michael Strevens That said, Capulet's skepticism has a sound rationale. She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat. Montague has posited two kinds of things, heat itself and heat radiation, each popping up to do the job it is good for and then conveniently metamorphosing into the other when that's what's needed instead. See also en Montague References Moore, Olin H. (July 1930). "The Origins of the Legend of Romeo and Juliet in Italy". Speculum. Medieval Academy of America. Anagrams en acelptu Pulecat en eponyms terms first attested in Shakespeare en Fictional characters William Shakespeare