Montague

English thumb|Seal of Montague, Massachusetts Pronunciation en /ˈmɒntəɡjuː/ RP en ɒntəɡjuː 3 Proper noun ~ s en Old French, variant of Montagu. en male. en figuratively By analogy with the Shakespearean play, a member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the husband in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or of a group that is feuding with another, similar group identified as Capulet. 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 1960 The Braziliam Othello of Machado de Assis: A study of Dom Casmurro Helen Caldwell 124 For seven years she and her father, and her father-in-law, remained estranged, till old Santa-Pia Capulet lay on his death bed, still adamant in his political convictions, recalcitrant against the orders of the state (on emancipation), and unrelenting toward his daughter, the dead Romeo, and old Montague; and so he died, with only a vague gesture of forgiveness toward Fidelia, though Campos (Prince Escalus) had been trying all the while to bring about a reconciliation. 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 2003 The Type-Writer Girl Grant Allen; Clarissa Suranyi 104 Romeo's mother was precisely what I had painted her — a Lady Montague of the severest, with coffee-coloured point-lace, a Cornelia one shade too stout for the mother of the Gracchi. 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. en place c/USA: en city co/Siskiyou County s/California. en town co/Franklin County s/Massachusetts. TopoZone: Montague, Massachusetts en city s/Michigan. en town s/New York. en unincorporated census-designated place/county seat co/Montague County s/Texas. en township p/Ontario. en community p/Prince Edward Island. Derived terms en Montagovian Montague County Shepton Montague See also en Capulet References en eponyms terms first attested in Shakespeare en Fictional characters William Shakespeare