Capulet

Meaning

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.

Origin

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

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