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Julietesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From Juliet + -esque.

Meanings

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of Juliet from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
   • She was not Julietesque; Junoesque was more like it. I had little doubt that I would win any fair competition against her, but would her father dangle a check, demanding that his daughter get the part? 1991, Darcy O'Brien, Margaret in Hollywood, page 119:
   • Abdul, the Romeoesque son of Ismail, the Muslim houseman of A. J. (why such an Indophobe chose an Indian as his houseman was never clear to me), had attempted to abduct Kamla, the elegant Julietesque daughter of the Hindu court clerk, Gajadhar Singh. 1997, Snow, Philip, 1915-2012, The years of hope : Cambridge, colonial administration in the South Seas and cricket, page 40:

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