capulet means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
CAPULET — [Noun] A member or supporter of the family, faction, or party of the wife in a Romeo-and-Juliet-style pair of feuding groups, the counterpart to the Montagues. From the surname of Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, itself from the Italian Capuleti, a faction name possibly derived from 'Cappelletti'. Unlike "Montague"—which specifies the symmetrical, husband's side of the archetypal conflict—or the anodyne "faction," which suggests mere political dissent, "Capulet" carries the specific, tragic weight of the beloved enemy. It is the crest on a livery worn as a provocation in a sun-drenched piazza, the velvet of a gown that hides a fatal affiliation at a masked ball, and the stone of a family crypt that becomes a bridal tomb—a name that signifies not just a clan, but the very condition of being the first and most profound obstacle love must face.
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- 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.”